City Of San Angelo, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.95 ppb (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. 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 San Angelo at a glance
City Of San Angelo serves about 105,229 people through 42,137 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 Tom Green County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2260001; phone on file: 325-315-1380. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
City Of San Angelo's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of San Angelo is 4.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.95 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.65 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.39 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.3 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 San Angelo's 3.95 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Texas and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Tom Green County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of San Angelo. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Goodfellow Air Force Base | 5,241 | 4.78 ppb |
| Concho Rural Water Grape Creek | 5,049 | 0 (not detected) |
| Concho Rural Water N Concho Lake Estates | 1,470 | 0 (not detected) |
| Concho Rural Water Pecan Creek | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tom Green County Fwsd 3 | 1,002 | 0 (not detected) |
| Red Creek Mud | 945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hhsc San Angelo State Supported Living C | 900 | 3.44 ppb |
| Concho Rural Water The Oaks | 825 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad | 690 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tom Green County Fwsd 2 Christoval | 482 | 2.65 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Angelo, 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 San Angelo 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.