City Of Kaufman, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
City Of Kaufman serves about 7,125 people through 5,864 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 Kaufman County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1290003; phone on file: 972-932-2216. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Kaufman is 1.62 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.62 ppb |
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 Kaufman's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 45th percentile in Texas and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
33 other systems share Kaufman County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Kaufman. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Forney | 29,692 | 0.96 ppb |
| High Point Sud | 26,052 | 0.85 ppb |
| Forney Lake Wsc | 20,377 | 2.78 ppb |
| City Of Terrell | 18,432 | 2.04 ppb |
| Talty Sud | 15,987 | 0.85 ppb |
| City Of Mabank | 15,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| College Mound Sud | 11,802 | 2.06 ppb |
| Gastonia Scurry Sud | 11,169 | 2.59 ppb |
| Kaufman County Fwsd 4a | 7,317 | 0.63 ppb |
| Kaufman County Mud 14 | 6,456 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Kaufman'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 Kaufman 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.