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City Of Calvert, TX

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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.

City Of Calvert at a glance

City Of Calvert serves about 962 people through 549 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 groundwater, in Robertson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1980002; phone on file: 979-364-2274. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Lead results over time

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Calvert is 2.2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20242.2 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. City Of Calvert's 2.2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Texas and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

7 other systems share Robertson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Calvert. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
City Of Hearne4,9590 (not detected)
Robertson County Wsc3,6110.44 ppb
City Of Franklin1,6500 (not detected)
Twin Creek Wsc1,4000.43 ppb
City Of Bremond8580 (not detected)
Wickson Sud Wheelock4995.48 ppb
Oak Forest Lakeway Manor1590.6 ppb

Next steps for Calvert, TX

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Calvert, 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 Calvert 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.