Texas Girls And Boys Ranch, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.73 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. 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.
Texas Girls And Boys Ranch at a glance
Texas Girls And Boys Ranch serves about 59 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lubbock County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1520072; phone on file: 806-747-3187. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 359.27 ppb from 360 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Texas Girls And Boys Ranch is 360 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 360 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. Texas Girls And Boys Ranch's 0.73 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Lubbock County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Texas Girls And Boys Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lubbock Public Water System | 266,450 | 1.36 ppb |
| City Of Wolfforth | 9,600 | 1.32 ppb |
| City Of Slaton | 5,858 | 1.08 ppb |
| City Of Shallowater | 2,964 | 2.29 ppb |
| City Of Idalou | 2,250 | 1.39 ppb |
| Town Of Ransom Canyon | 1,189 | 6.28 ppb |
| City Of New Deal | 729 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Mobile Home Village | 577 | 0.43 ppb |
| Lubbock County Wcid 1 | 465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town North Village Water System | 360 | 3.08 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lubbock, 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 Texas Girls And Boys Ranch 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.