City Of Browndell, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 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. 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
City Of Browndell serves about 262 people through 115 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jasper County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1210048; phone on file: 409-698-2044. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Browndell is 22 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 22 ppb over 15 |
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. City Of Browndell's 0.4 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Texas and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
18 other systems share Jasper County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Browndell. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Jasper | 9,884 | 0.83 ppb |
| Rayburn Country Mud | 4,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Upper Jasper County Water Authority 1 | 3,048 | 4.91 ppb |
| Jasper County Wcid 1 | 3,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Kirbyville | 2,578 | 0.66 ppb |
| South Jasper Wsc | 2,165 | 0.66 ppb |
| Rural Wsc | 1,141 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Kirbyville Rural Wsc | 1,037 | 3.34 ppb |
| Upper Jasper County Water Authority 2 | 975 | 2.67 ppb |
| Holly Huff Wsc | 583 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brookeland, 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 Browndell 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.