K & K Water North, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.04 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. 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.
K & K Water North at a glance
K & K Water North serves about 318 people through 106 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bastrop County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0110047. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
K & K Water North's lead record
That is up 2.04 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for K & K Water North is 3.04 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.04 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
How K & K Water North 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. K & K Water North's 3.04 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Texas and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bastrop County
21 other systems share Bastrop County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than K & K Water North. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Wsc | 86,325 | 1.39 ppb |
| City Of Bastrop | 13,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Elgin | 13,188 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bastrop County Wcid 2 | 7,269 | 1.41 ppb |
| City Of Smithville | 4,901 | 0.98 ppb |
| The Colony Mud 1a | 2,262 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bastrop County Wcid 1 | 696 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Colony Mud 1b | 657 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Colony Mud 1e | 468 | 0.24 ppb |
| Bastrop County Mud 1 | 354 | 0.56 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Red Rock, 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 K & K Water North 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.