Pfeiffer Water Authority, AR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Pfeiffer Water Authority at a glance
Pfeiffer Water Authority serves about 3,343 people through 1,710 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 Independence County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000251; phone on file: 870-698-2448. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pfeiffer Water Authority is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
Against other Arkansas systems
Of the 190 Arkansas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 19 have gone over at some point. Pfeiffer Water Authority's 1 ppb sits at the 6th percentile in Arkansas and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Independence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pfeiffer Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Batesville Water Utilities | 15,621 | 1 ppb |
| Southside Pub Water Authority | 9,108 | 1 ppb |
| Rock Moore Water Authority | 3,462 | 1 ppb |
| Dota Public Water Authority | 2,722 | - |
| Cushman Water System | 1,423 | - |
| Newark Waterworks | 1,091 | - |
| Magness Water Association | 391 | - |
| Oil Trough Waterworks | 235 | - |
Next steps for Batesville, AR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Batesville, AR 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 Pfeiffer Water 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.