City Of Carrizo Springs, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.6 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.
About City Of Carrizo Springs
City Of Carrizo Springs serves about 5,830 people through 2,111 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dimmit County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0640002; phone on file: 830-876-2476. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 4.5 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Carrizo Springs is 5.6 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 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. City Of Carrizo Springs's 5.6 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Dimmit County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Carrizo Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Asherton | 1,225 | 4.1 ppb |
| Carrizo Hill Wsc | 1,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Big Wells | 870 | 2.7 ppb |
| Catarina Wsc | 222 | 2.3 ppb |
| Espantosa Water Supply | 210 | 9.3 ppb |
| Brundage Water System | 60 | 1.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carrizo Springs, 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 Carrizo Springs 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.