Cape Carancahua Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Cape Carancahua Wsc at a glance
Cape Carancahua Wsc serves about 1,305 people through 527 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 groundwater, in Jackson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1200022; phone on file: 361-972-0929. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cape Carancahua Wsc is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Cape Carancahua 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. Cape Carancahua Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Texas and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Jackson County
7 other systems share Jackson County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cape Carancahua Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Edna | 5,987 | 0.78 ppb |
| City Of Ganado | 1,975 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson County Wcid 1 | 660 | 4.4 ppb |
| Jackson County Wcid 2 | 525 | 1.47 ppb |
| City Of La Ward | 240 | 4 ppb |
| La Salle Landing Water System | 91 | 2.88 ppb |
| Sunrise Bay Subdivision | 66 | 3.14 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Cape Carancahua Wsc's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cape Carancahua 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.