Jim Wells County Fwsd 1, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.69 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Jim Wells County Fwsd 1 serves about 1,950 people through 650 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jim Wells County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1250030; phone on file: 361-664-0482. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.58 ppb from 0.11 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jim Wells County Fwsd 1 is 1.69 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.69 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.11 ppb |
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. Jim Wells County Fwsd 1's 1.69 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Texas and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jim Wells County
5 other systems share Jim Wells County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Jim Wells County Fwsd 1. 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) |
| City Of Orange Grove | 1,170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Loma Linda Water Supply | 216 | 0 (not detected) |
| English Acres | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Alice, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alice, 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 Jim Wells County Fwsd 1 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.