City Of Leakey, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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 Leakey serves about 1,758 people through 586 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 Real County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1930002; phone on file: 830-232-6757. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Leakey is 0.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
How City Of Leakey 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 Leakey's 0.6 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Texas and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Real County
7 other systems share Real County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Leakey. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Camp Wood | 1,380 | 2 ppb |
| Real Wsc | 471 | 2 ppb |
| Oakmont Saddle Mountain Water System | 309 | 0.7 ppb |
| Twin Forks Estates Wsc | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crown Mountain Wsc | 141 | 4 ppb |
| Frio Canon Water | 60 | 10 ppb |
| The Ridge At Frio River Water System | 33 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Leakey, 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 Leakey 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.