Hot Springs Village Waterworks, AR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Hot Springs Village Waterworks at a glance
Hot Springs Village Waterworks serves about 15,985 people through 9,919 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Garland County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000208. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hot Springs Village Waterworks is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
Against other Arkansas systems
Of the 190 Arkansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 19 have gone over at some point. Hot Springs Village Waterworks's 1 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Arkansas and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Garland County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Hot Springs Village Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Springs Utilities | 75,343 | 1 ppb |
| N Garland Co Reg Water Dist | 7,913 | 4 ppb |
| Riviera Utilities | 1,800 | - |
| Mountain Pine Waterworks | 805 | - |
| Mill Pond Village Mhp | 288 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hot Springs Village, AR 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 Hot Springs Village Waterworks 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.