City Of Jersey Village, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 ppb (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. 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 Jersey Village at a glance
City Of Jersey Village serves about 7,792 people through 4,608 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 surface water, in Harris County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1010016; phone on file: 713-466-2100. 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 down 2.4 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Jersey Village is 7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 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 Jersey Village's 4.6 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
690 other systems share Harris County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Jersey Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Houston | 2,970,543 | 5 ppb |
| City Of Pasadena | 152,000 | 3.72 ppb |
| Clear Lake City Water Authority | 89,702 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Baytown | 86,004 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Houston Ud 5 - Kingwood | 80,073 | 0.51 ppb |
| Harris County Mud 165 | 40,503 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of La Porte | 36,569 | 2.35 ppb |
| City Of Deer Park | 34,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Harris County Mud 5 | 25,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Katy | 25,253 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for Jersey Village, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jersey Village, 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 Jersey Village 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.