City Of River Oaks, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.55 ppb (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. 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 River Oaks at a glance
City Of River Oaks serves about 7,691 people through 2,866 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 Tarrant County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2200069; phone on file: 817-626-5421. 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 1.55 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of River Oaks is 3.1 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.1 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 River Oaks's 1.55 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Texas and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tarrant County
74 other systems share Tarrant County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of River Oaks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fort Worth | 955,900 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Arlington | 413,955 | 1.17 ppb |
| City Of Mansfield | 89,227 | 4.33 ppb |
| City Of North Richland Hills | 74,859 | 1.9 ppb |
| City Of Euless | 61,601 | 3.3 ppb |
| City Of Grapevine | 52,346 | 1.7 ppb |
| City Of Bedford | 49,941 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Haltom City | 47,014 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Keller | 46,308 | 2.16 ppb |
| City Of Hurst | 40,454 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for River Oaks, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; River Oaks, 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 River Oaks 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.