Orange County Wcid 1, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.87 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
Orange County Wcid 1 serves about 15,258 people through 6,619 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 groundwater, in Orange County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1810005; phone on file: 409-769-2669. 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 1.87 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orange County Wcid 1 is 1.87 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.87 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.63 ppb |
How Orange County Wcid 1 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. Orange County Wcid 1's 1.87 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Texas and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Orange County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orange County Wcid 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Orange | 19,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mauriceville Mud | 10,374 | 0.71 ppb |
| City Of Bridge City | 9,546 | 1.98 ppb |
| Orangefield Wsc | 8,231 | 1.06 ppb |
| Orange County Wcid 2 | 4,074 | 0.92 ppb |
| City Of Pinehurst | 3,131 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Rose City | 664 | 1.44 ppb |
| Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste | 363 | 4.2 ppb |
| Kinard Estates | 254 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bridge City Waterwood Estates | 240 | 5.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vidor, 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 Orange County Wcid 1 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.