Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16, OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16
Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16 serves about 1,268 people through 540 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 surface water, in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3006106. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 5 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16 is 5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16 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. Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Oklahoma and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pittsburg County
21 other systems share Pittsburg County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcalester Pwa | 18,206 | 3.6 ppb |
| Longtown Rw&Sd #1 (Pittsburg Co.) | 5,444 | 2.1 ppb |
| Adamson Rwd #8 | 4,221 | 6.38 ppb |
| Hartshorne | 2,300 | 2.9 ppb |
| Pittsburg Co. Pwa (Crowder) | 2,203 | 0 (not detected) |
| Krebs Utility Authority | 2,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pittsburg Co. Rwd #7 (Arpelar) | 2,040 | 2.31 ppb |
| Indianola Rwd #18 | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Us Army Ammunition Plant | 1,872 | 1.8 ppb |
| Pittsburg Co. Rwd #5 | 1,750 | 1.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pittsburg Co. Rwd #16 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.