Bear Springs Trails Subdivision, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Bear Springs Trails Subdivision
Bear Springs Trails Subdivision serves about 120 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bandera County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0100076; phone on file: 830-510-4284. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bear Springs Trails Subdivision is 1.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 ppb |
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. Bear Springs Trails Subdivision's 0.9 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Texas and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Bandera County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bear Springs Trails Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Medina Shores | 3,660 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Bandera | 3,231 | 2.02 ppb |
| Bandera County Fwsd 1 | 1,092 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bandera River Ranch 1 | 1,053 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bridlegate Subdivision | 882 | 1.2 ppb |
| Flying L Pud | 837 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakewood Water | 816 | 0.8 ppb |
| Medina Wsc | 774 | 0.9 ppb |
| River Bend Estates | 567 | 1.3 ppb |
| Enchanted River Estates | 513 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pipe Creek, 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 Bear Springs Trails Subdivision 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.