English Acres, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
English Acres at a glance
English Acres serves about 90 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jim Wells County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1250033; phone on file: 972-247-8358. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
English Acres'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 English Acres is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How English Acres 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. English Acres's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Texas and the 8th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Jim Wells County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than English Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Alice | 19,104 | 1.96 ppb |
| City Of Premont | 2,441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jim Wells County Fwsd 1 | 1,950 | 1.69 ppb |
| City Of Orange Grove | 1,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loma Linda Water Supply | 216 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Alice, TX
Look up your address in English Acres'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 English Acres 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.