Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek, AZ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek at a glance
Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek serves about 875 people through 350 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Yavapai County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0413059; phone on file: 928-567-4338. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek is 2.31 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.31 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek compares
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in Arizona and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
100 other systems share Yavapai County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Prescott Valley | 57,048 | 0 (not detected) |
| Prescott City Of | 42,217 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1 | 11,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Park Water Company | 7,392 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Camp Verde Utilities | 5,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clarkdale Municipal Water System | 5,201 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cottonwood Municipal Water Vv6 | 4,518 | 18 ppb |
| Cordes Lakes Water Company | 4,425 | 4.1 ppb |
| Arizona Water Co - Rimrock | 3,532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Freeport Mcmoran Bagdad Town | 3,200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Camp Verde, AZ
Look up your address in Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek'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 Verde Lakes Water - Dinky Creek 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.