Eufaula Pwa, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Eufaula Pwa serves about 2,766 people through 1,009 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Mcintosh County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1020514; phone on file: 918-689-2534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Eufaula Pwa's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eufaula Pwa is 1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Eufaula Pwa compares
Of the 870 Oklahoma systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.81 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Eufaula Pwa's 1 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Oklahoma and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Mcintosh County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eufaula Pwa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #8 (Texanna) | 3,574 | 0 (not detected) |
| Checotah Pwa | 3,481 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh Co. Rws & Swmd #2 (Onapa) | 2,774 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #5 | 1,900 | 1.91 ppb |
| Mcintosh Co. Rws & Swmd #9 | 1,761 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #6 (Vivian) | 1,500 | 2.97 ppb |
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #3 (Victor) | 920 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #7 | 200 | 3 ppb |
| Shell Creek Rwd #12, Mcintosh Co. | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hanna Pwa | 133 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eufaula, OK may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Eufaula Pwa whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.