Community Water Co Montgomery Garden, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.81 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. 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.
Community Water Co Montgomery Garden at a glance
Community Water Co Montgomery Garden serves about 1,047 people through 349 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Smith County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2120008; phone on file: 903-874-8244. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 4.81 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Community Water Co Montgomery Garden is 4.81 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.81 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Community Water Co Montgomery Garden's 4.81 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
35 other systems share Smith County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Community Water Co Montgomery Garden. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Tyler | 107,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Utilities | 69,735 | 1.57 ppb |
| Lindale Rural Wsc | 14,781 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Whitehouse | 9,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walnut Grove Wsc | 8,775 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Lindale | 6,313 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dean Wsc | 5,907 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Wsc | 5,862 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sand Flat Wsc | 4,569 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bullard | 4,500 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corsicana, 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 Community Water Co Montgomery Garden 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.