American Camp Ground, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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
American Camp Ground serves about 381 people through 57 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Val Verde County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2330023. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for American Camp Ground is 1.9 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 4,447 Texas systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.28 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 202 have gone over at some point. American Camp Ground's 1.9 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Texas and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Val Verde County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than American Camp Ground. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Del Rio Utilities Commission | 36,506 | 1.7 ppb |
| Laughlin Air Force Base | 4,010 | 6 ppb |
| Lake Ridge Water System | 1,300 | 1.32 ppb |
| Holiday Trav L Park | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Del Grande Mobile Home Park | 288 | 1.2 ppb |
| Val Verde County Wcid Comstock | 175 | 0 (not detected) |
| San Pedro Canyon Subdivision - Upper | 150 | 1.68 ppb |
| Devils Shores Wsc | 97 | 0.4 ppb |
| Rough Canyon Condos | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tierra Del Lago | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Del Rio, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Del Rio, TX 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 American Camp Ground 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.