City Of Midland Water Purification Plant, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.08 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Midland Water Purification Plant at a glance
City Of Midland Water Purification Plant serves about 157,000 people through 42,567 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Midland County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1650001; phone on file: 432-685-7100. 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 up 1.58 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Midland Water Purification Plant is 4.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.08 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.2 ppb |
How City Of Midland Water Purification Plant 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 Midland Water Purification Plant's 3.08 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Texas and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Midland County
11 other systems share Midland County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Midland Water Purification Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenwood Isd | 3,945 | 0.71 ppb |
| Park Water | 1,611 | 1.1 ppb |
| Greenwood Water System | 915 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westgate Manufactured Townhome Community | 456 | 0.46 ppb |
| Warren Road Subdivision Water Supply | 195 | - |
| South Midland County Water System | 165 | - |
| Spring Meadow Mobile Home Park | 163 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenwood Terrace M H Subdivision | 120 | - |
| Margies Mhp | 60 | 0.92 ppb |
| Countryside Acres Hoa | 45 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Midland, 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 Midland Water Purification Plant 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.