City Of Elkhart, 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.
City Of Elkhart at a glance
City Of Elkhart serves about 2,871 people through 957 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 Anderson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0010005; phone on file: 903-764-5657. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Elkhart's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Elkhart is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 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 Elkhart's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Texas and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Anderson County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Elkhart. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Palestine | 31,272 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tdcj Coffield Unit | 7,965 | 5.19 ppb |
| Tdcj Beto Unit | 6,613 | 2.5 ppb |
| Brushy Creek Wsc | 4,866 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walston Springs Wsc | 4,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Four Pines Wsc | 3,603 | 2.23 ppb |
| Slocum Wsc | 3,120 | 2.25 ppb |
| B C Y Wsc | 3,012 | 1.47 ppb |
| Neches Wsc | 2,295 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Frankston Downtown Plant | 1,896 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Elkhart, TX
Look up your address in City Of Elkhart'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 Elkhart whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1480 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.