Nueces County Wcid 3, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.38 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.
About Nueces County Wcid 3
Nueces County Wcid 3 serves about 14,000 people through 5,166 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Nueces County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1780005; phone on file: 361-387-4549. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.18 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nueces County Wcid 3 is 2.38 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.38 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nueces County Wcid 3 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. Nueces County Wcid 3's 2.38 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Texas and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Nueces County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nueces County Wcid 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Corpus Christi | 317,247 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 4 | 14,880 | 1.04 ppb |
| Naval Air Station Corpus Christi | 7,048 | 1.29 ppb |
| Nueces Wsc | 3,165 | 0.56 ppb |
| City Of Bishop | 3,103 | 1.64 ppb |
| River Acres Wsc | 2,700 | 2.34 ppb |
| Violet Wsc | 2,670 | 1.62 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 5 | 933 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Agua Dulce | 848 | 0.64 ppb |
| City Of Driscoll | 680 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Robstown, 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 Nueces County Wcid 3 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.