Woods County Rwd # 3, OK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Woods County Rwd # 3 serves about 356 people through 495 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Woods County, Oklahoma. EPA system ID: OK3007605; phone on file: 580-327-0052. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Woods County Rwd # 3's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woods County Rwd # 3 is 5.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 870 Oklahoma systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.81 ppb; 6 are over 15 ppb right now and 66 have gone over at some point. Woods County Rwd # 3's 5.4 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Oklahoma and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Woods County
6 other systems share Woods County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Woods County Rwd # 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Alva | 5,208 | 1.2 ppb |
| Waynoka | 993 | 6.8 ppb |
| Woods County Rwd # 1 | 426 | 0.5 ppb |
| Freedom | 275 | 3.1 ppb |
| Dacoma Pwa | 148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woods Co Rwd #2 | 42 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alva, OK 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 Woods County Rwd # 3 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.