City Of Edmonson, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.69 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About City Of Edmonson
City Of Edmonson serves about 67 people through 30 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 Hale County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0950015; phone on file: 806-774-5900. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Edmonson's lead record
That is down 4.18 ppb from 4.87 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Edmonson is 17 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.87 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.52 ppb |
| 2023 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 10.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How City Of Edmonson compares
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 Edmonson's 0.69 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Texas and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Hale County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Edmonson. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Plainview Municipal Water System | 21,104 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Abernathy | 2,865 | 0.54 ppb |
| City Of Hale Center | 1,705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seth Ward Wsc | 1,700 | 1.63 ppb |
| City Of Petersburg | 1,205 | 4.61 ppb |
| Cotton Center Wsc | 250 | 8.98 ppb |
| Halfway Wsc | 110 | 1.49 ppb |
| South Haven | 108 | 1.11 ppb |
| Grand Castle Estates | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loma Alta Wsc | 72 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Edmonson, 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 Edmonson 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.