City Of Carmine, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.02 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 Carmine serves about 375 people through 251 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 Fayette County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0750007; phone on file: 979-278-3273. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.18 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Carmine is 18 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 18 ppb over 15 |
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 Carmine's 1.02 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Texas and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Fayette County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Carmine. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette Wsc West | 5,802 | 3.15 ppb |
| City Of La Grange | 4,973 | 1.32 ppb |
| City Of Schulenburg | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Flatonia | 1,969 | 5 ppb |
| Fayette Wsc East | 1,866 | 0.42 ppb |
| Fayette County Wcid Monument Hill | 575 | 0.86 ppb |
| Ellinger Sewer And Wsc | 573 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Fayetteville | 253 | 1.93 ppb |
Next steps for Carmine, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carmine, 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 Carmine 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.