Valley Springs Waterworks, AR
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Valley Springs Waterworks at a glance
Valley Springs Waterworks serves about 3,400 people through 1,360 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 Boone,Marion County, Arkansas. EPA system ID: AR0000065; phone on file: 870-429-5525. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Valley Springs Waterworks's lead record
That is down 30 ppb from 33 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Springs Waterworks is 33 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 33 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. Valley Springs Waterworks's 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Arkansas and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Valley Springs, 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 Valley Springs Waterworks 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.