City Of Bishop, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.64 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. 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
City Of Bishop serves about 3,103 people through 1,247 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 Nueces County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1780002; phone on file: 361-584-2567. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Bishop's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Bishop is 3.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.64 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 ppb |
How City Of Bishop 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. City Of Bishop's 1.64 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Texas and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Nueces County
11 other systems share Nueces County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Bishop. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Corpus Christi | 317,247 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 4 | 14,880 | 1.04 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 3 | 14,000 | 2.38 ppb |
| Naval Air Station Corpus Christi | 7,048 | 1.29 ppb |
| Nueces Wsc | 3,165 | 0.56 ppb |
| River Acres Wsc | 2,700 | 2.34 ppb |
| Violet Wsc | 2,670 | 1.62 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 5 | 933 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Agua Dulce | 848 | 0.64 ppb |
| City Of Driscoll | 680 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bishop, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bishop, 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 City Of Bishop 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.