City Of Live Oak, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.48 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.
About City Of Live Oak
City Of Live Oak serves about 8,724 people through 4,963 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bexar County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0150068; phone on file: 210-653-9140. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Live Oak's lead record
That is down 2.02 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Live Oak is 3.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.48 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.9 ppb |
How City Of Live Oak 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 Live Oak's 1.48 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Texas and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bexar County
40 other systems share Bexar County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Live Oak. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Water System | 2,643,729 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jbsa Sam Houston | 37,563 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Converse | 29,709 | 0.5 ppb |
| East Central Sud | 26,137 | 1.5 ppb |
| Jbsa Lackland | 20,907 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Universal City | 20,119 | 0.5 ppb |
| Atascosa Rural Wsc | 13,857 | 2 ppb |
| City Of Selma | 11,418 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jbsa Randolph | 10,949 | 2 ppb |
| Fair Oaks Ranch Utilities | 9,768 | 2.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Live Oak, 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 Live Oak 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.