City Of Horseshoe Bay, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.11 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
City Of Horseshoe Bay serves about 12,729 people through 3,456 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Llano County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1500015; phone on file: 830-598-8741. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.63 ppb from 1.48 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Horseshoe Bay is 12 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.11 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.48 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.06 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.26 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 2.67 ppb |
How City Of Horseshoe Bay 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. City Of Horseshoe Bay's 4.11 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Texas and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Llano County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Horseshoe Bay. 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 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 |
| Buchanan Lake Village | 425 | 6.81 ppb |
Next steps for Horseshoe Bay, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Horseshoe Bay, 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 City Of Horseshoe Bay 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.