Medina River West Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
Medina River West Wsc at a glance
Medina River West Wsc serves about 1,158 people through 386 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: TX1630028; phone on file: 830-423-1265. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Medina River West Wsc's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Medina River West Wsc is 1.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 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. Medina River West Wsc's 1.5 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Texas and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Medina County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Medina River West Wsc. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Castroville, 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 River West 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.