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Center Point North Water System, TX

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.

Who runs the water here

Center Point North Water System serves about 270 people through 90 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kerr County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1330111; phone on file: 512-990-4400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2023 (0.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Center Point North Water System is 0.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20260.7 ppb
20230.3 ppb

How Center Point North Water System 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. Center Point North Water System's 0.7 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Texas and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

66 other systems share Kerr County; 31 of them have a higher latest lead result than Center Point North Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
City Of Kerrville30,5303.34 ppb
Ingram Water Supply5,9551.1 ppb
Loma Vista Water System3,7201.8 ppb
Four Seasons1,0590 (not detected)
Southern Hills1,0051.9 ppb
Kerrville Va Hospital1,0002.24 ppb
Erlund Subdivision8210.7 ppb
Guadalupe Heights Utility6781.3 ppb
Ingram Oaks Retirement Community6690 (not detected)
Oak Forest South Water Supply6481.2 ppb

Your move

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 Center Point North Water System 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.