Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc, AZ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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 Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc
Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc serves about 190 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cochise County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0402042; phone on file: 520-720-8026. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc's 1 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Arizona and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cochise County
49 other systems share Cochise County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc. 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) |
Next steps for Benson, AZ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Benson, 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 Willow Lakes Property Owners Assoc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.