Buckeye Knoll, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.69 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Buckeye Knoll at a glance
Buckeye Knoll serves about 72 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Live Oak County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1490016; phone on file: 808-769-2570. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 5.31 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckeye Knoll is 7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
How Buckeye Knoll compares
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. Buckeye Knoll's 1.69 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in Texas and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Live Oak County
5 other systems share Live Oak County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckeye Knoll. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Three Rivers | 4,428 | 1.84 ppb |
| City Of George West | 2,159 | 1.74 ppb |
| Lake Vista Utility | 834 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Marbach School Wsc | 712 | 1.63 ppb |
| Jones River Bend Wsc | 80 | 4.43 ppb |
Next steps for George West, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; George West, 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 Buckeye Knoll 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.