Roman Forest Pud 4, TX
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Roman Forest Pud 4
Roman Forest Pud 4 serves about 60 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1700237; phone on file: 281-807-8790. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 11.28 ppb from 0.72 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roman Forest Pud 4 is 103 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.98 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.01 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.82 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.31 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.18 ppb |
| 2022 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 103 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Roman Forest Pud 4's 12 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Texas and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
332 other systems share Montgomery County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Roman Forest Pud 4. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Conroe | 113,912 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porter Special Utility District | 26,388 | 0.59 ppb |
| Montgomery Trace Water System | 25,917 | 0.41 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 46 | 24,399 | 2.31 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 47 | 24,171 | 0.7 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 67 | 16,821 | 0.83 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 60 | 15,036 | 3.16 ppb |
| New Caney Mud | 14,307 | 1.54 ppb |
| City Of Willis | 14,133 | 0.7 ppb |
| Southern Montgomery County Mud | 13,372 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Houston, 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 Roman Forest Pud 4 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.