City Of Hemphill, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
City Of Hemphill at a glance
City Of Hemphill serves about 1,779 people through 4,316 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 surface water, in Sabine County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2020001; phone on file: 409-787-2251. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 6.06 ppb from 6.06 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Hemphill is 6.06 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 6.06 ppb |
| 2017 | 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 Hemphill's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Texas and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Sabine County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Hemphill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| G M Wsc | 12,672 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Sabine Wsc | 1,981 | 2.76 ppb |
| Beechwood Wsc | 1,138 | 1.95 ppb |
| Brookeland Fwsd | 1,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Pineland | 1,043 | 1.3 ppb |
| Shawnee Shores | 276 | 0.54 ppb |
| El Camino Bay Water System | 266 | 0 (not detected) |
| Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc | 75 | 0.27 ppb |
Next steps for Hemphill, TX
Look up your address in City Of Hemphill's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Hemphill 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.