Whetstone Village Mhp, AZ
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Whetstone Village Mhp at a glance
Whetstone Village Mhp serves about 50 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Cochise County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0402104; phone on file: 520-266-2206. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 12 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whetstone Village Mhp is 12 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Whetstone Village Mhp 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. Whetstone Village Mhp's 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Arizona and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
49 other systems share Cochise County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whetstone Village Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bella Vista City Water System | 20,045 | 0 (not detected) |
| Douglas City Of | 16,656 | 0 (not detected) |
| Us Army Fort Huachuca | 15,603 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pueblo Del Sol Water Company | 12,804 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arizona Water Co - Sierra Vista | 9,233 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arizona Water Co - Bisbee | 8,590 | 0 (not detected) |
| Benson, City Of Water System | 5,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Willcox | 3,236 | 0 (not detected) |
| St David Dwid | 2,192 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bella Vista Water South | 2,178 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huachuca City, AZ 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 Whetstone Village Mhp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.