Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.79 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.
Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System at a glance
Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System serves about 228 people through 76 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: TX2440005; phone on file: 940-723-8697. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.79 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System is 3.79 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.79 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
How Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System 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. Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System's 3.79 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Texas and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Wilbarger County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Rra Hinds Wildcat 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 |
| Harrold Wsc | 189 | 3.6 ppb |
| Rra Farmers Valley Water System | 156 | 1.98 ppb |
| Rra Box Community Water System | 144 | 4.6 ppb |
| Oklaunion Wsc | 95 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 Hinds Wildcat 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.