City Of Sour Lake, 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 Sour Lake at a glance
City Of Sour Lake serves about 1,813 people through 1,114 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 Hardin County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1000003; phone on file: 409-287-3573. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Sour Lake is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Sour Lake's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in Texas and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Hardin County
20 other systems share Hardin County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Sour Lake. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lumberton Mud | 31,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Silsbee | 10,026 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Hardin Wsc | 7,755 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Hardin Wsc | 4,630 | 0.73 ppb |
| Wildwood Resort City | 1,992 | 0.86 ppb |
| City Of Kountze | 1,981 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hardin County Wcid 1 | 1,256 | 0 (not detected) |
| Countrywood Water System | 431 | 0 (not detected) |
| Enchanted Forest | 358 | 0 (not detected) |
| Breakaway Trails Subdivision | 121 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in City Of Sour Lake'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 Sour Lake 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.