Golden Acres Water, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Golden Acres Water
Golden Acres Water serves about 207 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Nueces County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1780019; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Golden Acres Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Golden Acres Water is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 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. Golden Acres Water's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Texas and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Nueces County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Golden Acres Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Corpus Christi | 317,247 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 4 | 14,880 | 1.04 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 3 | 14,000 | 2.38 ppb |
| Naval Air Station Corpus Christi | 7,048 | 1.29 ppb |
| Nueces Wsc | 3,165 | 0.56 ppb |
| City Of Bishop | 3,103 | 1.64 ppb |
| River Acres Wsc | 2,700 | 2.34 ppb |
| Violet Wsc | 2,670 | 1.62 ppb |
| Nueces County Wcid 5 | 933 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Agua Dulce | 848 | 0.64 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Golden Acres Water'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 Golden Acres Water 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.