Pawnee Co Rwd #1, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 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.
Pawnee Co Rwd #1 at a glance
Pawnee Co Rwd #1 serves about 3,200 people through 1,010 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 Pawnee County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2005931; phone on file: 918-243-5451. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pawnee Co Rwd #1 is 10.4 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.76 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 6.2 ppb |
How Pawnee Co Rwd #1 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. Pawnee Co Rwd #1's 2.9 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Oklahoma and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Pawnee County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pawnee Co Rwd #1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Municipal Authority | 3,262 | 1.7 ppb |
| Pawnee | 2,230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pawnee Co Rwd #2 | 1,775 | 1.1 ppb |
| Pawnee Co Rwd #3 | 685 | 1.3 ppb |
| Pawnee Co Rwd #4 | 415 | 0.9 ppb |
| Jennings | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ralston | 335 | 3.9 ppb |
| Westport Utility Authority Trust | 289 | 1.2 ppb |
| Pawnee County Rwd #5 | 225 | 2.8 ppb |
| Hallett Public Works Authority | 168 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cleveland, 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 Pawnee Co Rwd #1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1740 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.