Tri-County Water Distbr Dist, AR
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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.
About Tri-County Water Distbr Dist
Tri-County Water Distbr Dist serves about 16,084 people through 6,473 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Pope County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000782; phone on file: 479-284-0702. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Tri-County Water Distbr Dist's lead record
That is down 6 ppb from 13 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tri-County Water Distbr Dist is 13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (3 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
How Tri-County Water Distbr Dist compares
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. Tri-County Water Distbr Dist's 7 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Arkansas and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Pope County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Tri-County Water Distbr Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Corporation | 29,260 | 1 ppb |
| Atkins Water System | 4,439 | 36 ppb |
| Pottsville Water Association | 4,045 | 3 ppb |
| Dover Waterworks | 1,797 | - |
| London Waterworks | 1,443 | - |
Next steps for Russelville, AR
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Russelville, 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 Tri-County Water Distbr Dist 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.