City Of Hempstead, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.94 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
City Of Hempstead at a glance
City Of Hempstead serves about 7,158 people through 2,386 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 groundwater, in Waller County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2370001; phone on file: 979-826-2486. 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 up 4 ppb from 2.94 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Hempstead is 6.94 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.94 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.94 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.77 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 Hempstead's 6.94 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
41 other systems share Waller County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Hempstead. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie View A&M University | 9,550 | 0.74 ppb |
| City Of Prairie View | 8,184 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of Waller | 5,448 | 1.5 ppb |
| Brookshire Mwd | 5,364 | 1.92 ppb |
| G & W Wsc | 4,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harris-Waller Counties Mud 5 | 4,098 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willow Creek Farms Mud | 3,453 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waller County Mud 37 | 3,258 | 0.7 ppb |
| Oak Hollow Subdivision | 1,980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pattison Wsc | 1,650 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hempstead, 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 Hempstead 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.