Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.23 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.
About Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe
Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe serves about 155 people through 24 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 Wheeler County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2420006; phone on file: 806-375-2454. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe is 19 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.23 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 19 ppb over 15 |
Against other Texas systems
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. Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe's 1.23 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Texas and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Wheeler County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Shamrock Municipal Water System | 2,311 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wheeler Municipal Water System | 1,602 | 2.88 ppb |
| Project Caprock Man Camp | 1,150 | - |
| Mobeetie City Water Works | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Briscoe, 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 Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.