City Of Ingleside On The Bay, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 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 Ingleside On The Bay at a glance
City Of Ingleside On The Bay serves about 610 people through 385 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 San Patricio County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2050071; phone on file: 361-776-5451. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Ingleside On The Bay's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Ingleside On The Bay is 4.8 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.8 ppb |
How City Of Ingleside On The Bay 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 Ingleside On The Bay's 4.8 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share San Patricio County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Ingleside On The Bay. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Portland | 22,933 | 1.48 ppb |
| City Of Ingleside | 10,106 | 10.9 ppb |
| City Of Aransas Pass | 8,088 | 2.8 ppb |
| City Of Sinton | 5,505 | 3.7 ppb |
| Rincon Wsc | 5,034 | 1.51 ppb |
| City Of Mathis | 5,001 | 1.14 ppb |
| City Of Taft | 4,627 | 2.95 ppb |
| City Of Odem | 2,250 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Gregory | 1,760 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saint Paul Wsc | 608 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ingleside, 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 Ingleside On The Bay 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.