City Of Gladewater, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.52 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 Gladewater at a glance
City Of Gladewater serves about 6,441 people through 3,111 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Gregg County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0920001; phone on file: 903-845-2196. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.2 ppb from 6.72 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Gladewater is 44 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.52 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.72 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.29 ppb |
| 2024 | 31.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.53 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.04 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 44 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 3.52 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.7 ppb |
How City Of Gladewater 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 Gladewater's 2.52 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Texas and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Gregg County
14 other systems share Gregg County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Gladewater. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Longview | 83,236 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Kilgore | 15,543 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tryon Road Sud | 10,791 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elderville Wsc | 9,021 | 0 (not detected) |
| Liberty City Wsc | 6,540 | 3.08 ppb |
| City Of White Oak | 6,469 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Gregg Sud | 5,127 | 1.9 ppb |
| Liberty Danville Fwsd 2 | 1,131 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Clarksville City | 972 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forest Lake Subdivision | 441 | 1.95 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gladewater, 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 Gladewater 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.