City Of Roscoe, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Roscoe serves about 1,238 people through 523 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 groundwater, in Nolan County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1770001; phone on file: 325-766-3021. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
City Of Roscoe's lead record
That is down 16.6 ppb from 16.6 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Roscoe is 26.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 26.7 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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 Roscoe's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Texas and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Nolan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Roscoe. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Sweetwater | 12,401 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bitter Creek Wsc South | 2,973 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nolan County Fwsd 1 | 258 | 3.12 ppb |
Next steps for Roscoe, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Roscoe, 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 Roscoe 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.