Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad
Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad serves about 690 people through 230 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Tom Green County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2260003; phone on file: 325-658-2961. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad 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. Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Texas and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Tom Green County
16 other systems share Tom Green County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of San Angelo | 105,229 | 3.95 ppb |
| Goodfellow Air Force Base | 5,241 | 4.78 ppb |
| Concho Rural Water Grape Creek | 5,049 | 0 (not detected) |
| Concho Rural Water N Concho Lake Estates | 1,470 | 0 (not detected) |
| Concho Rural Water Pecan Creek | 1,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tom Green County Fwsd 3 | 1,002 | 0 (not detected) |
| Red Creek Mud | 945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hhsc San Angelo State Supported Living C | 900 | 3.44 ppb |
| Concho Rural Water The Oaks | 825 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tom Green County Fwsd 2 Christoval | 482 | 2.65 ppb |
Next steps for Carlsbad, TX
Look up your address in Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Tom Green County Fwsd 1 Carlsbad 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.