Cherokee Home For Children, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (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. 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
Cherokee Home For Children serves about 60 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Saba County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2060004; phone on file: 325-622-4201. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cherokee Home For Children's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Home For Children is 2.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Cherokee Home For Children's 2.5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Texas and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in San Saba County
4 other systems share San Saba County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Home For Children. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of San Saba | 3,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richland Sud | 2,505 | 0 (not detected) |
| North San Saba Wsc | 885 | - |
| City Of Richland Springs | 325 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cherokee, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cherokee, 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 Cherokee Home For Children 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.