El Paso Water Utilities, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
El Paso Water Utilities serves about 747,168 people through 236,502 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in El Paso County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0710002; phone on file: 915-594-5595. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
El Paso Water Utilities's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for El Paso Water Utilities is 10 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1.16 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.16 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
How El Paso Water Utilities 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. El Paso Water Utilities's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 49th percentile in Texas and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share El Paso County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than El Paso Water Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Valley Water District | 59,049 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paseo Del Este Mud 1 | 36,773 | 12.3 ppb |
| Horizon Regional Mud | 31,542 | 0.71 ppb |
| East Montana Water System | 11,480 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Paso County Wcid 4 Fabens | 9,444 | 1.03 ppb |
| Town Of Anthony | 5,555 | 1.14 ppb |
| El Paso County Tornillo Wid | 3,600 | 1.84 ppb |
| Village Of Vinton | 2,684 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haciendas Del Norte Water Improvement Di | 1,074 | 0 (not detected) |
| River View Estates | 224 | 1.74 ppb |
Next steps for El Paso, TX
Look up your address in El Paso Water Utilities'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 El Paso Water Utilities 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.