Mcfarland Village Apartments, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.98 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. 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 Mcfarland Village Apartments
Mcfarland Village Apartments serves about 120 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Harris County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1012982; phone on file: 281-288-6348. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Mcfarland Village Apartments's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mcfarland Village Apartments is 25.7 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.98 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 25.7 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. Mcfarland Village Apartments's 0.98 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Texas and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
690 other systems share Harris County; 274 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mcfarland Village Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Houston | 2,970,543 | 5 ppb |
| City Of Pasadena | 152,000 | 3.72 ppb |
| Clear Lake City Water Authority | 89,702 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Baytown | 86,004 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Houston Ud 5 - Kingwood | 80,073 | 0.51 ppb |
| Harris County Mud 165 | 40,503 | 1.3 ppb |
| City Of La Porte | 36,569 | 2.35 ppb |
| City Of Deer Park | 34,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Harris County Mud 5 | 25,425 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Katy | 25,253 | 2.7 ppb |
Next steps for Houston, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Houston, 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 Mcfarland Village Apartments 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.