Val Verde County Wcid Comstock, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Val Verde County Wcid Comstock serves about 175 people through 144 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 Val Verde County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2330003. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Val Verde County Wcid Comstock is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Val Verde County Wcid Comstock's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Texas and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Val Verde County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Val Verde County Wcid Comstock. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Del Rio Utilities Commission | 36,506 | 1.7 ppb |
| Laughlin Air Force Base | 4,010 | 6 ppb |
| Lake Ridge Water System | 1,300 | 1.32 ppb |
| Holiday Trav L Park | 660 | 0 (not detected) |
| American Camp Ground | 381 | 1.9 ppb |
| Del Grande Mobile Home Park | 288 | 1.2 ppb |
| San Pedro Canyon Subdivision - Upper | 150 | 1.68 ppb |
| Devils Shores Wsc | 97 | 0.4 ppb |
| Rough Canyon Condos | 89 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tierra Del Lago | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Val Verde County Wcid Comstock'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 Val Verde County Wcid Comstock 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.