El Camino Bay Water System, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
El Camino Bay Water System serves about 266 people through 121 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Sabine County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2020013; phone on file: 409-550-2972. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for El Camino Bay Water System is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How El Camino Bay Water System 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. El Camino Bay Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 14th percentile in Texas and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Sabine County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than El Camino Bay Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| G M Wsc | 12,672 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Sabine Wsc | 1,981 | 2.76 ppb |
| City Of Hemphill | 1,779 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beechwood Wsc | 1,138 | 1.95 ppb |
| Brookeland Fwsd | 1,105 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Pineland | 1,043 | 1.3 ppb |
| Shawnee Shores | 276 | 0.54 ppb |
| Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc | 75 | 0.27 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in El Camino Bay Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask El Camino Bay Water System 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.