Okmulgee Pwa, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Okmulgee Pwa serves about 13,495 people through 4,800 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1020708; phone on file: 918-758-1101. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Okmulgee Pwa's lead record
That is up 1.9 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Okmulgee Pwa is 3.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Okmulgee 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. Okmulgee Pwa's 3.1 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Oklahoma and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Okmulgee County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Okmulgee Pwa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #6 (Hectorville) | 8,370 | 5 ppb |
| Henryetta Municipal Authority | 6,096 | 1.54 ppb |
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #20 | 2,377 | 2.1 ppb |
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #7 (Nuyaka) | 2,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #2 (Preston) | 2,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #4 | 1,913 | 0 (not detected) |
| Okmulgee Co. Rwd #1 | 1,890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh Co. Rwd #13 (Wells) | 1,465 | 2.08 ppb |
| Morris | 1,460 | 1.8 ppb |
| Beggs Public Works Authority | 1,364 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Okmulgee, 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 Okmulgee 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.