City Of Forney, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.96 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. 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 Forney at a glance
City Of Forney serves about 29,692 people through 9,034 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Kaufman County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1290002; phone on file: 972-552-6620. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Forney's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.67 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Forney is 35 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.96 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.67 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.25 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.62 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.76 ppb |
| 2018 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 2.44 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.06 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 Forney's 0.96 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Texas and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kaufman County
33 other systems share Kaufman County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Forney. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| High Point Sud | 26,052 | 0.85 ppb |
| Forney Lake Wsc | 20,377 | 2.78 ppb |
| City Of Terrell | 18,432 | 2.04 ppb |
| Talty Sud | 15,987 | 0.85 ppb |
| City Of Mabank | 15,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| College Mound Sud | 11,802 | 2.06 ppb |
| Gastonia Scurry Sud | 11,169 | 2.59 ppb |
| Kaufman County Fwsd 4a | 7,317 | 0.63 ppb |
| City Of Kaufman | 7,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kaufman County Mud 14 | 6,456 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Forney, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Forney, 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 Forney 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.