City Of Stephenville, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About City Of Stephenville
City Of Stephenville serves about 23,110 people through 9,395 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Erath County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0720002; phone on file: 254-918-1212. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Stephenville's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Stephenville is 4.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.4 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 Stephenville's 1.3 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Texas and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Erath County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Stephenville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Dublin | 3,388 | 3.53 ppb |
| Mountain Lakes Addition | 1,347 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barton Wsc | 1,104 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northside Water | 620 | 2.3 ppb |
| Green Creek Wsc | 555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morgan Mill Wsc | 358 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bluff Dale Wsc | 270 | 2.9 ppb |
| Cattail Creek Mhp | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Equestrian Estates | 129 | 2.1 ppb |
| Pigeon Road Estates | 114 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Stephenville, 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 Stephenville 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.