Milburn Public Works Authority, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.29 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. 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.
About Milburn Public Works Authority
Milburn Public Works Authority serves about 317 people through 163 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 Johnston County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2003520; phone on file: 580-443-5702. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.11 ppb from 7.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Milburn Public Works Authority is 7.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.29 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.87 ppb |
How Milburn Public Works Authority 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. Milburn Public Works Authority's 2.29 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Oklahoma and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Johnston County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Milburn Public Works Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tishomingo Municipal Authority | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Johnston Co Rwd #3 | 2,783 | 1.35 ppb |
| Murray State College | 1,150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Johnston Co Rws& Swmd #4 | 600 | 1.78 ppb |
| Mannsville Public Works Authority | 587 | 5.88 ppb |
| Ravia | 459 | 2.37 ppb |
| Wapanucka | 420 | 1.64 ppb |
| Mill Creek | 310 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bromide | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Milburn, 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 Milburn Public Works Authority 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.