Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc, TX

Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.

Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc at a glance

Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc serves about 53 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lincoln County, Texas. EPA system ID: NM3558214; phone on file: 915-599-7779. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc's lead record

That is up 5.2 ppb from 5.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc is 11 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).

How Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc 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. Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc's 11 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Texas and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).

Other water systems in Lincoln County

1 other system shares Lincoln County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

Next steps for El Paso, TX

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; El Paso, 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 Cedar Creek Mutual Water Consumers Assoc 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.