Gun & Rod Estates, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.76 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Gun & Rod Estates
Gun & Rod Estates serves about 219 people through 73 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2390021; phone on file: 737-376-2534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.94 ppb from 2.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gun & Rod Estates is 60 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 60 ppb over 15 |
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. Gun & Rod Estates's 0.76 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Washington County
9 other systems share Washington County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gun & Rod Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Brenham | 18,469 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northeast Washington County | 3,219 | 2.17 ppb |
| Central Washington County Wsc | 2,270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chappell Hill Wsc | 645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Hill Fwsd 1 | 445 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Burton | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Starlite Mobile Home Park | 195 | 2.62 ppb |
| Holiday Oaks Subdivision | 85 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Forest Water System | 67 | 6.53 ppb |
Next steps for Austin, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, 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 Gun & Rod Estates 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.