Loma Alta Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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. 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.
Loma Alta Wsc at a glance
Loma Alta Wsc serves about 72 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 Hale County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0950059; phone on file: 806-889-3810. 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 2022 (0.53 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Loma Alta Wsc is 3.92 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.53 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.92 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. Loma Alta Wsc's 0.6 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Texas and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Hale County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Loma Alta Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Plainview Municipal Water System | 21,104 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Abernathy | 2,865 | 0.54 ppb |
| City Of Hale Center | 1,705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seth Ward Wsc | 1,700 | 1.63 ppb |
| City Of Petersburg | 1,205 | 4.61 ppb |
| Cotton Center Wsc | 250 | 8.98 ppb |
| Halfway Wsc | 110 | 1.49 ppb |
| South Haven | 108 | 1.11 ppb |
| Grand Castle Estates | 80 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Edmonson | 67 | 0.69 ppb |
Next steps for Plainview, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Plainview, 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 Loma Alta Wsc 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.