City Of Nome, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
City Of Nome serves about 825 people through 321 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 Jefferson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1230039; phone on file: 409-253-2391. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of Nome's lead record
That is down 21.1 ppb from 21.1 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Nome is 21.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 21.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 0.74 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.54 ppb |
How City Of Nome 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 Nome's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Texas and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Jefferson County
16 other systems share Jefferson County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Nome. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Beaumont Water Utility Dept | 113,567 | 0.83 ppb |
| City Of Port Arthur | 56,039 | 2.35 ppb |
| City Of Nederland | 18,157 | 1.81 ppb |
| City Of Groves | 17,335 | 0.93 ppb |
| City Of Port Neches | 17,043 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Jefferson County Mwd | 9,367 | 0.91 ppb |
| Federal Correctional Complex-Beaumont | 5,748 | 5.72 ppb |
| Jefferson County Wcid 10 | 4,605 | 1.88 ppb |
| Meeker Mwd | 4,071 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bevil Oaks | 1,414 | 3.47 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Nome, 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 Nome 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.