City Of Fairfield, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.58 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.
City Of Fairfield at a glance
City Of Fairfield serves about 3,005 people through 1,916 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 Freestone County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0810001; phone on file: 903-389-2633. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 12.92 ppb from 15.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Fairfield is 15.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.58 ppb |
| 2024 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 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 Fairfield's 2.58 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Texas and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Freestone County
19 other systems share Freestone County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Fairfield. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Teague | 5,688 | 5.03 ppb |
| South Freestone County Wsc | 3,753 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Oaks Water Supply | 2,304 | 3.08 ppb |
| Butler Wsc | 1,842 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasant Grove Wsc | 1,839 | 0.4 ppb |
| City Of Fairfield Boyd Unit | 1,690 | 2.39 ppb |
| City Of Fairfield Westwood Utility | 1,563 | 1.38 ppb |
| City Of Wortham | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Streetman | 573 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Kirvin | 549 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fairfield, 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 Fairfield 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.