Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.2 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
Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste serves about 363 people through 135 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1810117; phone on file: 409-769-9030. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste is 4.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
How Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste 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. Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste's 4.2 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Texas and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Orange County
25 other systems share Orange County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Orange | 19,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orange County Wcid 1 | 15,258 | 1.87 ppb |
| Mauriceville Mud | 10,374 | 0.71 ppb |
| City Of Bridge City | 9,546 | 1.98 ppb |
| Orangefield Wsc | 8,231 | 1.06 ppb |
| Orange County Wcid 2 | 4,074 | 0.92 ppb |
| City Of Pinehurst | 3,131 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Rose City | 664 | 1.44 ppb |
| Kinard Estates | 254 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bridge City Waterwood Estates | 240 | 5.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vidor, 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 Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste 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.