City Of Iredell, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.35 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
City Of Iredell serves about 360 people through 160 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 groundwater, in Bosque County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0180014; phone on file: 254-364-2437. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Iredell is 4.35 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.35 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 Iredell's 4.35 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Bosque County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Iredell. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Clifton | 3,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rocky Creek Water System | 2,814 | 0 (not detected) |
| Childress Creek Wsc | 2,469 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mustang Valley Wsc | 2,382 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Meridian | 1,415 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Valley Mills | 1,203 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Walnut Springs | 795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smith Bend Wsc | 711 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cs Water | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Morgan | 490 | 3.31 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Iredell, 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 Iredell 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.