Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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.
Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights at a glance
Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights serves about 213 people through 71 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 surface water, in Cameron County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0310147; phone on file: 956-565-2491. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights is 1.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.2 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. Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights's 1 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Texas and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Cameron County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 201,249 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harlingen Water Works System | 85,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laguna Madre Water District | 46,674 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Rio Hondo Wsc | 25,509 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of San Benito | 24,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Jardin Wsc | 9,423 | 1.81 ppb |
| Olmito Wsc | 8,952 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of La Feria | 7,226 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of Los Fresnos | 6,009 | 2.57 ppb |
| City Of Primera | 5,811 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Progreso, 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 Military Hwy Wsc Del Mar Heights 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.