Southern Hills Water System, AR
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 73 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Southern Hills Water System serves about 25 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Carroll County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000792; phone on file: 479-253-9701. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 126 ppb from 199 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southern Hills Water System is 199 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 73 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 199 ppb over 15 |
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. Southern Hills Water System's 73 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Arkansas and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Carroll County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southern Hills Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Berryville Waterworks | 6,813 | 2 ppb |
| Green Forest Waterworks | 6,265 | 1 ppb |
| Eureka Springs Waterworks | 4,053 | 7 ppb |
| Holiday Island Waterworks | 2,446 | 1 ppb |
| Oak Grove Water | 485 | - |
| Bluebird Water, Llc | 205 | - |
| Mundell Heights Waterworks | 203 | - |
| Lake Forest Subordinate Dist | 125 | - |
| Grassy Knob Subordinate Sd | 88 | 3 ppb |
| Glen Acres | 68 | - |
Next steps for Rogers, AR
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Southern Hills Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.