Heartland House, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.94 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Heartland House at a glance
Heartland House serves about 32 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lubbock County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1520292; phone on file: 806-765-6480. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.42 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heartland House is 18 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.94 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.42 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2018 | 18 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. Heartland House's 0.94 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Texas and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lubbock County
25 other systems share Lubbock County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heartland House. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lubbock Public Water System | 266,450 | 1.36 ppb |
| City Of Wolfforth | 9,600 | 1.32 ppb |
| City Of Slaton | 5,858 | 1.08 ppb |
| City Of Shallowater | 2,964 | 2.29 ppb |
| City Of Idalou | 2,250 | 1.39 ppb |
| Town Of Ransom Canyon | 1,189 | 6.28 ppb |
| City Of New Deal | 729 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Mobile Home Village | 577 | 0.43 ppb |
| Lubbock County Wcid 1 | 465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town North Village Water System | 360 | 3.08 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lubbock, 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 Heartland House 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.