City Of Dodson, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Dodson
City Of Dodson serves about 93 people through 48 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 Collingsworth County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0440002; phone on file: 806-493-4987. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Dodson's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Dodson is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Dodson's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Texas and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
3 other systems share Collingsworth County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Dodson. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellington Municipal Water System | 1,857 | 2.61 ppb |
| Rra Dodson Water System | 286 | 1.62 ppb |
| Rra Samnorwood Water System | 147 | 2.59 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Dodson'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 Dodson 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.