Bluff Dale Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 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.
Bluff Dale Wsc at a glance
Bluff Dale Wsc serves about 270 people through 88 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 Erath County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0720036; phone on file: 254-728-3054. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.9 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bluff Dale Wsc is 2.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.8 ppb |
How Bluff Dale 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. Bluff Dale Wsc's 2.9 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Texas and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Erath County
15 other systems share Erath County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bluff Dale Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Stephenville | 23,110 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of Dublin | 3,388 | 3.53 ppb |
| Mountain Lakes Addition | 1,347 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barton Wsc | 1,104 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northside Water | 620 | 2.3 ppb |
| Green Creek Wsc | 555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morgan Mill Wsc | 358 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cattail Creek Mhp | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Equestrian Estates | 129 | 2.1 ppb |
| Pigeon Road Estates | 114 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bluff Dale, 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 Bluff Dale Wsc 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.