City Of Fredericksburg, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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 Fredericksburg at a glance
City Of Fredericksburg serves about 12,360 people through 8,301 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 groundwater, in Gillespie County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0860001; phone on file: 830-997-7521. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Fredericksburg is 16.2 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 16.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.7 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 Fredericksburg's 0.7 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Gillespie County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Fredericksburg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Stonewall Wcid | 726 | 1.61 ppb |
| Lcra Harper Water System | 381 | 0.7 ppb |
| Deerwood Subdivision | 357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harper Road Estates | 333 | 2 ppb |
| Northwest Hills Water Supply | 219 | 1.7 ppb |
| West Oak Heights | 213 | 0 (not detected) |
| Liveoaks Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakview Water System | 195 | 1.3 ppb |
| Whispering Oaks Water Works | 189 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reservation Ranch | 180 | - |
Next steps for Fredericksburg, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg 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.