City Of Odessa, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
City Of Odessa at a glance
City Of Odessa serves about 123,334 people through 55,910 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 Ector County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0680002; phone on file: 432-335-4104. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Odessa is 10.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 10.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 2.78 ppb |
Against other Texas systems
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 Odessa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 49th percentile in Texas and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Ector County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Odessa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ector County Utility District | 15,300 | 2.22 ppb |
| Greater Gardendale Wsc | 3,477 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Goldsmith | 257 | 0 (not detected) |
| Huber Garden Estates | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northgate Mobile Home Park 1 | 126 | 0 (not detected) |
| Canyon Dam Mobile Home Park | 108 | 0.67 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Odessa'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 Odessa 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.