Lahoma Pwa, OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Lahoma Pwa at a glance
Lahoma Pwa serves about 577 people through 277 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 Garfield County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2002417; phone on file: 580-796-2600. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lahoma Pwa is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lahoma Pwa 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. Lahoma Pwa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Oklahoma and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Garfield County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lahoma Pwa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Enid | 49,347 | 5.1 ppb |
| Vance Afb | 3,231 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garfield Co Rwd #5 | 1,980 | 2 ppb |
| Waukomis Pwa | 1,366 | 6.8 ppb |
| Garfield Co Rwd #6 | 1,225 | 1.1 ppb |
| Garber Municipal Authority | 725 | 1.1 ppb |
| Highpoint Mhp | 600 | 10.7 ppb |
| Covington | 553 | 1.2 ppb |
| Drummond | 405 | 1.7 ppb |
| Garfield Co Rwd # 4 | 334 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lahoma, OK
Look up your address in Lahoma Pwa's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lahoma Pwa 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.