Amon G Carter Lake Wsc, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Amon G Carter Lake Wsc at a glance
Amon G Carter Lake Wsc serves about 750 people through 311 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Montague County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1690023; phone on file: 940-872-5505. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Amon G Carter Lake Wsc's lead record
That is down 2.9 ppb from 4.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Amon G Carter Lake Wsc is 136.9 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 6 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 136.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 22.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 22.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 28.7 ppb over 15 |
How Amon G Carter Lake Wsc compares
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. Amon G Carter Lake Wsc's 2 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Texas and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Montague County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Amon G Carter Lake Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bowie | 5,534 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Nocona | 3,170 | 7.53 ppb |
| City Of Saint Jo | 881 | 1 ppb |
| Nocona Hills Wsc | 600 | 1.5 ppb |
| Sunset Water System | 570 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montague Water System | 540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forestburg Wsc | 264 | 3 ppb |
| Oak Shores Water System | 234 | 3.3 ppb |
| Rra Ringgold | 172 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bowie, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bowie, 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 Amon G Carter Lake Wsc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1358.5 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.