Avondale Heights, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Avondale Heights at a glance
Avondale Heights serves about 423 people through 141 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tarrant County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2200184; phone on file: 512-990-4400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Avondale Heights's lead record
That is down 23 ppb from 23 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avondale Heights is 23 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 23 ppb over 15 |
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. Avondale Heights's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Texas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
74 other systems share Tarrant County; 45 of them have a higher latest lead result than Avondale Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fort Worth | 955,900 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Arlington | 413,955 | 1.17 ppb |
| City Of Mansfield | 89,227 | 4.33 ppb |
| City Of North Richland Hills | 74,859 | 1.9 ppb |
| City Of Euless | 61,601 | 3.3 ppb |
| City Of Grapevine | 52,346 | 1.7 ppb |
| City Of Bedford | 49,941 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Haltom City | 47,014 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Keller | 46,308 | 2.16 ppb |
| City Of Hurst | 40,454 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, 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 Avondale Heights 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.