Buchanan Lake Village, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.81 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.
Buchanan Lake Village at a glance
Buchanan Lake Village serves about 425 people through 218 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Llano County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1500003; phone on file: 512-422-2410. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.81 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buchanan Lake Village is 34 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.81 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 34 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. Buchanan Lake Village's 6.81 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Llano County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buchanan Lake Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kingsland Wsc | 12,975 | 0.91 ppb |
| City Of Horseshoe Bay | 12,729 | 4.11 ppb |
| City Of Llano | 3,352 | 2.32 ppb |
| Lake Buchanan | 2,484 | 1.33 ppb |
| City Of Sunrise Beach Village | 791 | 1.7 ppb |
| Llano County Mud 1 | 747 | 1.11 ppb |
| Pecan Utilities Oak Ridge Subdivision | 588 | 0 (not detected) |
| 3 G Wsc | 550 | 3.89 ppb |
| Kingsland Wsc Comanche Rancherias | 537 | 2.48 ppb |
| Paradise Point Subdivision | 528 | 2.45 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jonestown, 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 Buchanan Lake Village 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.