Forest Springs Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Forest Springs Water System
Forest Springs Water System serves about 494 people through 197 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1870059; phone on file: 713-574-5953. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Forest Springs Water System's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Springs Water System is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Forest Springs Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Texas and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
55 other systems share Polk County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Forest Springs Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Livingston | 15,199 | 1.56 ppb |
| Lake Livingston Pineshadows East | 5,675 | 1.84 ppb |
| Onalaska Wsc | 5,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Livingston Oakridge North | 3,284 | 0.59 ppb |
| Tempe Wsc 1 | 2,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soda Wsc | 2,237 | 0.92 ppb |
| Providence Wsc | 2,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Point | 1,827 | 4 ppb |
| Leggett Wsc | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Corrigan | 1,722 | 0.84 ppb |
Next steps for Cypress, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cypress, 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 Forest Springs 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.