Prairie Ridge Estates, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (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. 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 Prairie Ridge Estates
Prairie Ridge Estates serves about 315 people through 105 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tarrant County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2200348; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Prairie Ridge Estates's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Prairie Ridge Estates is 0.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 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. Prairie Ridge Estates's 0.6 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Texas and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
74 other systems share Tarrant County; 40 of them have a higher latest lead result than Prairie Ridge Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Fort Worth | 955,900 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Arlington | 413,955 | 1.17 ppb |
| City Of Mansfield | 89,227 | 4.33 ppb |
| City Of North Richland Hills | 74,859 | 1.9 ppb |
| City Of Euless | 61,601 | 3.3 ppb |
| City Of Grapevine | 52,346 | 1.7 ppb |
| City Of Bedford | 49,941 | 0.8 ppb |
| City Of Haltom City | 47,014 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Keller | 46,308 | 2.16 ppb |
| City Of Hurst | 40,454 | 2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, 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 Prairie Ridge Estates 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.