East Biggs Water System, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
East Biggs Water System at a glance
East Biggs Water System serves about 15,000 people through 667 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in El Paso County, California. EPA system ID: TX0710187; phone on file: 757-353-1909. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.7 ppb from 10.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Biggs Water System is 17 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How East Biggs Water System compares
Of the 2,884 California systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 30 are over 15 ppb right now and 215 have gone over at some point. East Biggs Water System's 4.6 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in California and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share El Paso County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Biggs Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Bliss Main Post Area | 28,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Bliss Biggs Army Airfield | 2,961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Quail Hill Mobile Home Park | 878 | 0 (not detected) |
| Security Mhp | 150 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Dimas, CA 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 East Biggs Water System 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.