City Of Mathis, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.14 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 Mathis at a glance
City Of Mathis serves about 5,001 people through 1,667 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 San Patricio County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2050003; phone on file: 361-547-3343. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Mathis's lead record
That is down 1.72 ppb from 2.86 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Mathis is 6.2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.14 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.86 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 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 Mathis's 1.14 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Texas and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share San Patricio County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Mathis. 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 Taft | 4,627 | 2.95 ppb |
| City Of Odem | 2,250 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Gregory | 1,760 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Ingleside On The Bay | 610 | 4.8 ppb |
| Saint Paul Wsc | 608 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mathis, 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 Mathis 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.