Montebello Utility, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Montebello Utility at a glance
Montebello Utility serves about 1,068 people through 356 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Liberty County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1460174; phone on file: 281-590-4359. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.8 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montebello Utility is 2.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Montebello Utility 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. Montebello Utility's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Texas and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
68 other systems share Liberty County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montebello Utility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Dayton | 15,393 | 1.13 ppb |
| City Of Cleveland | 12,438 | 1.94 ppb |
| Santa Fe Utility | 8,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Liberty | 8,170 | 0.85 ppb |
| Grand San Jacinto Water System | 6,174 | 1.82 ppb |
| Hardin Wsc | 6,132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tarkington Sud | 5,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camino Real | 5,160 | 0.63 ppb |
| Bella Vista | 3,876 | 0.52 ppb |
| South Cleveland Wsc | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Montebello Utility's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Montebello Utility 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.