New Braunfels Utilities, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
New Braunfels Utilities serves about 116,477 people through 50,340 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Comal County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0460001; phone on file: 830-608-8901. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Braunfels Utilities is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.2 ppb |
How New Braunfels Utilities 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. New Braunfels Utilities's 1.7 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Texas and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Comal County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Braunfels Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clwsc Canyon Lake Shores | 44,196 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sjwtx Triple Peak Plant | 32,973 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Garden Ridge | 5,100 | 3.7 ppb |
| Sjwtx Glenwood Subdivision | 2,985 | 0.2 ppb |
| Gbra Johnson Ranch Subdivision | 2,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Canyon Lake Mobile Home Estates | 2,202 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Village North | 1,944 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Cove Wsc | 1,825 | 1.6 ppb |
| Rockwall Ranch Subdivision | 1,773 | 1 ppb |
| Canyon Springs Water | 1,528 | 1.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Braunfels, 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 New Braunfels Utilities 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.