City Of Dripping Springs, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.97 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Dripping Springs
City Of Dripping Springs serves about 531 people through 178 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 surface water, in Hays County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1050187; phone on file: 512-858-4725. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Dripping Springs's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Dripping Springs is 0.97 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.97 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 Dripping Springs's 0.97 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Texas and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Hays County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Dripping Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of San Marcos | 72,970 | 1.63 ppb |
| City Of Kyle | 52,000 | 1.91 ppb |
| Texas State University - San Marcos | 43,552 | 1.3 ppb |
| Goforth Sud | 34,893 | 0 (not detected) |
| County Line Sud | 19,609 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Buda | 13,830 | 1.46 ppb |
| Dripping Springs Wsc | 8,037 | 1.89 ppb |
| Plum Creek | 7,065 | 1.24 ppb |
| Wimberley Wsc | 5,334 | 2.08 ppb |
| Hays County Wcid 2 | 3,381 | 2.88 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dripping 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 Dripping 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.