City Of Gordon, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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 Gordon at a glance
City Of Gordon serves about 475 people through 803 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Palo Pinto County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1820007; phone on file: 254-693-5676. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Gordon's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Gordon is 16.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 16.3 ppb over 15 |
How City Of Gordon 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 Gordon's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Texas and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Palo Pinto County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Gordon. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Mineral Wells | 15,564 | 0 (not detected) |
| Possum Kingdom Wsc | 8,583 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Rural Wsc | 3,610 | 7.83 ppb |
| Santo Sud | 3,546 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sturdivant Progress Wsc | 3,111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Palo Pinto Area Wsc | 2,247 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Strawn | 1,311 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Cliffs | 1,115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Palo Pinto Wsc | 1,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sportsmans World Mud | 735 | 1.8 ppb |
Next steps for Gordon, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gordon, 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 Gordon 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.