Ingram Oaks Retirement Community, 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.
Who runs the water here
Ingram Oaks Retirement Community serves about 669 people through 223 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kerr County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1330142; phone on file: 830-367-2426. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ingram Oaks Retirement Community's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ingram Oaks Retirement Community is 1.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
How Ingram Oaks Retirement Community compares
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. Ingram Oaks Retirement Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Texas and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Kerr County
66 other systems share Kerr County; 44 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ingram Oaks Retirement Community. 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 |
| Oak Forest South Water Supply | 648 | 1.2 ppb |
| Center Point Taylor System | 531 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ingram, TX
Look up your address in Ingram Oaks Retirement Community'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 Ingram Oaks Retirement Community 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.