Kiowa Rural Water District #1, OK
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.3 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Kiowa Rural Water District #1 at a glance
Kiowa Rural Water District #1 serves about 135 people through 56 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 Kiowa County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3003804; phone on file: 580-530-1799. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 10.54 ppb from 0.76 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kiowa Rural Water District #1 is 11.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Kiowa Rural Water District #1's 11.3 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Oklahoma and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kiowa County
8 other systems share Kiowa County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kiowa Rural Water District #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hobart | 3,746 | 1.3 ppb |
| Snyder Public Works Authority | 1,509 | 5.2 ppb |
| Mountain View Pwa | 880 | 0.53 ppb |
| Mountain Park Public Works Auth | 473 | 6.61 ppb |
| Lone Wolf | 440 | 1.46 ppb |
| Roosevelt Pwa | 280 | 2.72 ppb |
| Gotebo | 272 | 5.11 ppb |
| Quartz Mountain Reg Water Auth | 5 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Altus, 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 Kiowa Rural Water District #1 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.