Sheppard Air Force Base, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 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 Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base serves about 19,500 people through 344 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Wichita County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2430007; phone on file: 940-676-2121. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sheppard Air Force Base's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (4.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sheppard Air Force Base is 4.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 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. Sheppard Air Force Base's 4.3 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Texas and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Wichita County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sheppard Air Force Base. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Wichita Falls | 101,915 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Burkburnett | 11,057 | 3.6 ppb |
| City Of Iowa Park | 6,612 | 2.6 ppb |
| Wichita Valley Wsc | 6,516 | 0.5 ppb |
| City Of Electra | 2,559 | 4.1 ppb |
| Friberg-Cooper Wsc | 981 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Pleasant Valley | 330 | 1.44 ppb |
| Horseshoe Bend Estates | 130 | 4.77 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sheppard Afb, 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 Sheppard Air Force Base 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.