Garrett Community Water, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.8 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Garrett Community Water at a glance
Garrett Community Water serves about 864 people through 288 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Ellis County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0700026; phone on file: 903-874-8244. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 5.62 ppb from 1.18 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Garrett Community Water is 6.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.18 ppb |
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. Garrett Community Water's 6.8 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Ellis County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Garrett Community Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Waxahachie | 50,814 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockett Sud | 46,614 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Midlothian | 27,699 | 1.68 ppb |
| Mountain Peak Sud | 25,302 | 1.98 ppb |
| City Of Ennis | 24,891 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sardis Lone Elm Wsc | 20,736 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Red Oak | 18,577 | 0 (not detected) |
| Buena Vista Bethel Sud | 8,218 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Ovilla | 4,532 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Ferris | 4,204 | 3.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Corsicana, 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 Garrett Community Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.