Medina County Wcid 2, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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
Medina County Wcid 2 serves about 756 people through 252 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 Medina County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1630008; phone on file: 830-363-7535. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Medina County Wcid 2 is 1.2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
How Medina County Wcid 2 compares
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. Medina County Wcid 2's 1.2 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Texas and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Medina County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Medina County Wcid 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Benton City Wsc | 32,000 | 0.7 ppb |
| Yancey Wsc | 12,186 | 3.5 ppb |
| City Of Hondo | 11,044 | 1.4 ppb |
| East Medina County Sud Unit 1 | 6,153 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Devine | 4,335 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Castroville | 3,913 | 7.2 ppb |
| East Medina County Sud Unit 2 | 2,505 | 0.7 ppb |
| West Medina Wsc | 1,683 | 0.5 ppb |
| City Of La Coste | 1,488 | 4.6 ppb |
| East Medina County Sud Unit 3 | 1,365 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; D Hanis, 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 Medina County Wcid 2 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.