Hill Country Ranch Estates, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2020-2022). 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.
Hill Country Ranch Estates at a glance
Hill Country Ranch Estates serves about 57 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kerr County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1330083. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hill Country Ranch Estates is 0.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.5 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. Hill Country Ranch Estates's 0.5 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Texas and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kerr County
66 other systems share Kerr County; 34 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hill Country Ranch Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Kerrville | 30,530 | 3.34 ppb |
| Ingram Water Supply | 5,955 | 1.1 ppb |
| Loma Vista Water System | 3,720 | 1.8 ppb |
| Four Seasons | 1,059 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Hills | 1,005 | 1.9 ppb |
| Kerrville Va Hospital | 1,000 | 2.24 ppb |
| Erlund Subdivision | 821 | 0.7 ppb |
| Guadalupe Heights Utility | 678 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ingram Oaks Retirement Community | 669 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Forest South Water Supply | 648 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kerrville, 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 Hill Country Ranch 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.