Big Thicket Lake Estates 1, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Big Thicket Lake Estates 1 serves about 201 people through 67 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 Liberty County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1460025; phone on file: 936-327-3107. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Big Thicket Lake Estates 1 is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 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. Big Thicket Lake Estates 1's 1 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Texas and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
68 other systems share Liberty County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Big Thicket Lake Estates 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Dayton | 15,393 | 1.13 ppb |
| City Of Cleveland | 12,438 | 1.94 ppb |
| Santa Fe Utility | 8,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Liberty | 8,170 | 0.85 ppb |
| Grand San Jacinto Water System | 6,174 | 1.82 ppb |
| Hardin Wsc | 6,132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tarkington Sud | 5,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camino Real | 5,160 | 0.63 ppb |
| Bella Vista | 3,876 | 0.52 ppb |
| South Cleveland Wsc | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Livingston, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Livingston, 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 Big Thicket Lake Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.