City Of White Settlement, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 White Settlement serves about 18,522 people through 8,365 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 Tarrant County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2200081; phone on file: 817-246-4971. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of White Settlement's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.46 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of White Settlement is 25 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.46 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 25 ppb over 15 |
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 White Settlement's 2.6 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Texas and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tarrant County
74 other systems share Tarrant County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of White Settlement. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fort Worth | 955,900 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Arlington | 413,955 | 1.17 ppb |
| City Of Mansfield | 89,227 | 4.33 ppb |
| City Of North Richland Hills | 74,859 | 1.9 ppb |
| City Of Euless | 61,601 | 3.3 ppb |
| City Of Grapevine | 52,346 | 1.7 ppb |
| City Of Bedford | 49,941 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Haltom City | 47,014 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Keller | 46,308 | 2.16 ppb |
| City Of Hurst | 40,454 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; White Settlement, 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 White Settlement 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.