Rra Carey Northfield Ws, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Rra Carey Northfield Ws
Rra Carey Northfield Ws serves about 183 people through 73 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 surface water, in Childress County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0380015; phone on file: 940-723-8697. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Rra Carey Northfield Ws's lead record
That is up 8.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rra Carey Northfield Ws is 23 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 23 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. Rra Carey Northfield Ws's 8.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Texas and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Childress County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rra Carey Northfield Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Childress | 6,105 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rra Tell Cee Vee Ws | 534 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rra Northeast Childress | 316 | 1.4 ppb |
| Rra Garden Valley Ws | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rra Kirkland Lazare | 119 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rra Saied Ws | 68 | 1.99 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 Carey Northfield Ws 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.