Pauls Valley, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.25 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 Pauls Valley
Pauls Valley serves about 6,256 people through 2,818 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Garvin County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK1010808; phone on file: 405-238-3344. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.33 ppb from 1.92 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pauls Valley is 6.25 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.25 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.92 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.29 ppb |
How Pauls Valley 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. Pauls Valley's 6.25 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Oklahoma and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Garvin County
12 other systems share Garvin County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pauls Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Pwa | 2,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wynnewood Water & Light | 2,307 | 1.18 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd # 6 (Wells) | 1,680 | 6.2 ppb |
| Stratford | 1,575 | 2.15 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd #2 | 1,570 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garvin Co Rwd #1 | 1,445 | 1.7 ppb |
| Garvin Co Rwd #4 | 1,340 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maysville | 1,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elmore City Rw Corp | 1,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garvin Co Rwd #6 (Sw Purchase) | 862 | 2.05 ppb |
Next steps for Pauls Valley, OK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pauls Valley, 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 Pauls Valley 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.