East Lake Woods, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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 East Lake Woods
East Lake Woods serves about 381 people through 127 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Smith County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2120097; phone on file: 903-675-4316. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Lake Woods is 0.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.7 ppb |
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. East Lake Woods's 0.8 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Texas and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
35 other systems share Smith County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Lake Woods. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Tyler | 107,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Utilities | 69,735 | 1.57 ppb |
| Lindale Rural Wsc | 14,781 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Whitehouse | 9,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walnut Grove Wsc | 8,775 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Lindale | 6,313 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dean Wsc | 5,907 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Wsc | 5,862 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sand Flat Wsc | 4,569 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bullard | 4,500 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Athens, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 East Lake Woods 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.