Rra Box Community Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 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 Rra Box Community Water System
Rra Box Community Water System serves about 144 people through 43 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 Wilbarger County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2440006; phone on file: 940-723-8697. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rra Box Community Water System is 4.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.6 ppb |
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. Rra Box Community Water System's 4.6 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Wilbarger County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rra Box Community Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Vernon | 11,002 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rra Lockett Water System | 705 | 2.5 ppb |
| Northside Wsc | 250 | 2.5 ppb |
| Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System | 228 | 3.79 ppb |
| Harrold Wsc | 189 | 3.6 ppb |
| Rra Farmers Valley Water System | 156 | 1.98 ppb |
| Oklaunion Wsc | 95 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Wichita Falls, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wichita Falls, 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 Rra Box Community Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.