Horseshoe Bend Estates, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.77 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 Horseshoe Bend Estates
Horseshoe Bend Estates serves about 130 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Wichita County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2430013; phone on file: 940-851-9628. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Horseshoe Bend Estates is 4.77 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.77 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. Horseshoe Bend Estates's 4.77 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Texas and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Wichita County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Horseshoe Bend Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Wichita Falls | 101,915 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sheppard Air Force Base | 19,500 | 4.3 ppb |
| City Of Burkburnett | 11,057 | 3.6 ppb |
| City Of Iowa Park | 6,612 | 2.6 ppb |
| Wichita Valley Wsc | 6,516 | 0.5 ppb |
| City Of Electra | 2,559 | 4.1 ppb |
| Friberg-Cooper Wsc | 981 | 0.9 ppb |
| Town Of Pleasant Valley | 330 | 1.44 ppb |
Next steps for Iowa Park, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Iowa Park, 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 Horseshoe Bend 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.