Espantosa Water Supply, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Espantosa Water Supply serves about 210 people through 83 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dimmit County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0640030; phone on file: 830-876-9904. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Espantosa Water Supply's lead record
That is up 5.9 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Espantosa Water Supply is 31.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 31.7 ppb over 15 |
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. Espantosa Water Supply's 9.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Texas and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Dimmit County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Espantosa Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Carrizo Springs | 5,830 | 5.6 ppb |
| City Of Asherton | 1,225 | 4.1 ppb |
| Carrizo Hill Wsc | 1,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Big Wells | 870 | 2.7 ppb |
| Catarina Wsc | 222 | 2.3 ppb |
| Brundage Water System | 60 | 1.3 ppb |
Next steps for Carrizo Springs, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Carrizo Springs, 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 Espantosa Water Supply 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.