Hughes Co. Rwd #2, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.16 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Hughes Co. Rwd #2 at a glance
Hughes Co. Rwd #2 serves about 1,145 people through 491 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 groundwater, in Hughes County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1010414; phone on file: 918-546-2611. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hughes Co. Rwd #2's lead record
That is up 1.48 ppb from 2.68 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hughes Co. Rwd #2 is 4.16 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.16 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.68 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.87 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.26 ppb |
How Hughes Co. Rwd #2 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. Hughes Co. Rwd #2's 4.16 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Oklahoma and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Hughes County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Hughes Co. Rwd #2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Holdenville | 4,732 | 1.8 ppb |
| Hughes Co. Rwd #6 (Gerty) | 2,180 | 2.11 ppb |
| Wetumka | 1,451 | 9.66 ppb |
| Hughes Co. Rwd #1 | 1,225 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hughes Co. Rwd #5 | 800 | 0.91 ppb |
| Dustin Pwa | 496 | 0.91 ppb |
| Calvin | 300 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hughes Co. Rwd #3 | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stuart, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stuart, 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 Hughes Co. Rwd #2 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.