Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook, OK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook at a glance
Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook serves about 853 people through 360 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK2005521; phone on file: 405-285-5687. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Oklahoma and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Oklahoma County
35 other systems share Oklahoma County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City | 644,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edmond Pwa | 79,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midwest City | 55,935 | 1.2 ppb |
| Tinker Air Force Base | 24,645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Del City | 22,128 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bethany | 20,307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deer Creek Rural Water Corp | 5,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrah | 4,190 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nichols Hills | 4,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Choctaw Ua | 3,926 | 11.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook'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 Sooner Utilities-Valley Brook 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.