Beaver Creek Wcid 1, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.23 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.
About Beaver Creek Wcid 1
Beaver Creek Wcid 1 serves about 1,407 people through 469 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 Burleson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0260052; phone on file: 979-436-7279. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Beaver Creek Wcid 1's lead record
That is down 1.91 ppb from 2.14 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaver Creek Wcid 1 is 42.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.23 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.14 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2024 | 42.4 ppb over 15 |
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. Beaver Creek Wcid 1's 0.23 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Texas and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Burleson County
21 other systems share Burleson County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaver Creek Wcid 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Caldwell | 4,358 | 1.12 ppb |
| Deanville Wsc | 2,850 | 3.4 ppb |
| City Of Somerville | 1,556 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Snook | 980 | 5 ppb |
| Tunis Wsc | 850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeview N Marshall Oaks Sommerville Pla | 642 | 0.9 ppb |
| Lyons Wsc | 600 | 4 ppb |
| Cade Lakes Wsc | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yegua Water System | 487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burleson County Mud 1 | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Houston, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Houston, 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 Beaver Creek Wcid 1 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.