Heavener Utility Auth - Psg, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.07 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.
Heavener Utility Auth - Psg at a glance
Heavener Utility Auth - Psg serves about 3,000 people through 1,269 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 Le Flore County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1020101; phone on file: 918-653-2011. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (1.16 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heavener Utility Auth - Psg is 8.35 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.07 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.16 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.36 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.46 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.84 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0.54 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.08 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.47 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 8.35 ppb |
Against other Oklahoma systems
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. Heavener Utility Auth - Psg's 1.07 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Oklahoma and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Le Flore County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heavener Utility Auth - Psg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Leflore Co. Rwd #14 | 9,077 | 0 (not detected) |
| Poteau Pwa | 7,939 | 1.87 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #2 | 4,700 | 1.6 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #18 | 3,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spiro | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arkoma | 2,180 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spiro East Water Association | 1,817 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leflore Co. Consolidated Rwd #12 | 1,800 | 1.2 ppb |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #1 | 1,758 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leflore Co. Rwd #3 | 1,643 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Heavener, 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 Heavener Utility Auth - Psg whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1496.6 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.