Central Heights Utilities, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Central Heights Utilities
Central Heights Utilities serves about 973 people through 407 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 surface water, in Nacogdoches County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1740008; phone on file: 936-632-7795. 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 down 5.3 ppb from 5.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Central Heights Utilities is 5.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 5.3 ppb |
Against other Texas systems
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. Central Heights Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Texas and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Nacogdoches County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Central Heights Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Nacogdoches | 50,226 | 1.4 ppb |
| D & M Wsc | 7,280 | 0.98 ppb |
| Appleby Wsc | 5,745 | 2.86 ppb |
| Melrose Wsc | 3,143 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swift Wsc | 2,547 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lilly Grove Sud | 2,435 | 0 (not detected) |
| Caro Wsc | 2,412 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woden Wsc | 2,237 | 2.22 ppb |
| Etoile Wsc | 2,136 | 1.54 ppb |
| City Of Garrison | 1,260 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Lufkin, TX
Look up your address in Central Heights Utilities'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 Central Heights Utilities 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.