Wheeler Municipal Water System, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.88 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Wheeler Municipal Water System at a glance
Wheeler Municipal Water System serves about 1,602 people through 754 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 Wheeler County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2420002; phone on file: 806-826-3222. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wheeler Municipal Water System's lead record
That is up 2.88 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wheeler Municipal Water System is 30 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.88 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3.25 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.13 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 25 ppb over 15 |
How Wheeler Municipal 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. Wheeler Municipal Water System's 2.88 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Texas and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wheeler County
4 other systems share Wheeler County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wheeler Municipal Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Shamrock Municipal Water System | 2,311 | 0 (not detected) |
| Project Caprock Man Camp | 1,150 | - |
| Fort Elliott Cisd Briscoe | 155 | 1.23 ppb |
| Mobeetie City Water Works | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wheeler, 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 Wheeler Municipal 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.