City Of Carthage, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About City Of Carthage
City Of Carthage serves about 6,770 people through 6,020 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 surface water, in Panola County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1830001; phone on file: 903-693-3866. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Carthage is 1.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.8 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 Carthage's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 44th percentile in Texas and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Panola County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Carthage. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hollands Quarter Wsc | 1,605 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deadwood Wsc | 1,176 | 0.89 ppb |
| City Of Beckville | 1,152 | 0.57 ppb |
| Clayton Wsc Plant 2 | 1,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deberry Wsc | 1,101 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rehobeth Wsc | 1,095 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rock Hill Wsc | 1,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gary Wsc | 1,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Murvaul Wsc | 999 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Murvaul Wsc | 981 | 3.58 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Carthage's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Carthage 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.