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City of Leakey

What EPA’s and Texas’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,758 people
Connections
586
Water source
Groundwater influenced by surface water
Based in
Leakey, TX
County
Real
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

78873

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1994 to 2023.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from June 23, 2020 to Dec. 9, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

0.6ppb

90th percentile, 2021 to 2023

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 0.6 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

25.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 12.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 25.5 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 12.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 16.5 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

8.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 4.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.1 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 4.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.0 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.75ppm

Highest sample; found in 12 of 12

2025 average: 0.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.75 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.0 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.15ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.15 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.22 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 6 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. City of Leakey’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Texas’s results run from June 23, 2020 to Dec. 9, 2025.

Testing your own tap

City of Leakey’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Texas certifies.

No lab Texas certifies is within 75 miles of the area City of Leakey serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

Texas Well Owner Network, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: Well Informed screening events, where well owners bring in water samples to be screened for common contaminants, followed by an hour-long session explaining the results. Upcoming events are on the network's calendar. Trainings, Texas Well Owner Network.

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Sources

PWSID TX1930002. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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