Chanticor Series, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.66 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Chanticor Series serves about 90 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1700727; phone on file: 832-437-0471. 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 (0.72 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chanticor Series is 44 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.89 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.11 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 14.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.58 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 44 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.4 ppb |
How Chanticor Series 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. Chanticor Series's 1.66 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Texas and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
332 other systems share Montgomery County; 42 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chanticor Series. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Conroe | 113,912 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porter Special Utility District | 26,388 | 0.59 ppb |
| Montgomery Trace Water System | 25,917 | 0.41 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 46 | 24,399 | 2.31 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 47 | 24,171 | 0.7 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 67 | 16,821 | 0.83 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 60 | 15,036 | 3.16 ppb |
| New Caney Mud | 14,307 | 1.54 ppb |
| City Of Willis | 14,133 | 0.7 ppb |
| Southern Montgomery County Mud | 13,372 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Katy, 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 Chanticor Series whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.