City Of Talco, 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.
About City Of Talco
City Of Talco serves about 711 people through 237 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 Titus County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2250002; phone on file: 903-379-3331. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Talco's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Talco is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How City Of Talco compares
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 Talco's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Texas and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Titus County
4 other systems share Titus County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Talco. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tri Sud | 17,641 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Mount Pleasant | 16,238 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Winfield | 422 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Millers Cove | 192 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Talco'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 Talco 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.