Hitchcock Public Works Auth., OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Hitchcock Public Works Auth. serves about 141 people through 78 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Blaine County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2000610; phone on file: 580-623-0101. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hitchcock Public Works Auth.'s lead record
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hitchcock Public Works Auth. is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Hitchcock Public Works Auth.'s 1.2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Oklahoma and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Blaine County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hitchcock Public Works Auth.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Watonga | 2,816 | 1.8 ppb |
| Geary | 1,258 | 0 (not detected) |
| Okeene | 1,240 | 3.5 ppb |
| North Blaine Water Corp | 960 | 11.6 ppb |
| Canton | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longdale | 363 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenfield Pwa | 123 | 30.1 ppb |
Next steps for Hitchcock, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hitchcock, 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 Hitchcock Public Works Auth. 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.