City Of Richland, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.26 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. 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.
City Of Richland at a glance
City Of Richland serves about 1,020 people through 340 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 Navarro County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1750020; phone on file: 903-362-3707. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.46 ppb from 0.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Richland is 22 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.26 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.39 ppb |
| 2021 | 22 ppb over 15 |
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 Richland's 2.26 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Texas and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Navarro County
21 other systems share Navarro County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Richland. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Corsicana Pws | 25,885 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rice Wsc | 10,167 | 1.49 ppb |
| Chatfield Wsc | 6,546 | 0 (not detected) |
| M E N Wsc | 4,040 | 3.6 ppb |
| Navarro Mills Wsc | 3,852 | 0 (not detected) |
| Corbet Wsc | 3,234 | 18.2 ppb |
| B & B Wsc | 3,027 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Kerens | 1,520 | 7.9 ppb |
| Winkler Wsc | 1,344 | 0 (not detected) |
| Angus Wsc | 1,206 | 2.81 ppb |
Next steps for Richland, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Richland, 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 Richland 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.