City Of East Mountain, 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.
City Of East Mountain at a glance
City Of East Mountain serves about 2,331 people through 779 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 groundwater, in Upshur County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2300033; phone on file: 903-297-6041. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of East Mountain is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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 East Mountain's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Texas and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Upshur County
12 other systems share Upshur County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of East Mountain. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pritchett Wsc | 10,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Gilmer | 8,115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diana Sud | 7,953 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenwood Wsc | 3,738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union Grove Wsc | 3,198 | 1.04 ppb |
| City Of Big Sandy | 1,660 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Ore City | 1,509 | 3.84 ppb |
| Rosewood Water System | 639 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookshires Camp Joy Water System | 348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Friendship Water System | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gilmer, TX
Look up your address in City Of East Mountain'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 East Mountain 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.