Kingsland Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.91 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.
Who runs the water here
Kingsland Wsc serves about 12,975 people through 4,325 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Llano County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1500012; phone on file: 325-388-6611. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Kingsland Wsc's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.94 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kingsland Wsc is 1.01 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.91 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.94 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.01 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.83 ppb |
How Kingsland Wsc 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. Kingsland Wsc's 0.91 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Texas and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Llano County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kingsland Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Horseshoe Bay | 12,729 | 4.11 ppb |
| City Of Llano | 3,352 | 2.32 ppb |
| Lake Buchanan | 2,484 | 1.33 ppb |
| City Of Sunrise Beach Village | 791 | 1.7 ppb |
| Llano County Mud 1 | 747 | 1.11 ppb |
| Pecan Utilities Oak Ridge Subdivision | 588 | 0 (not detected) |
| 3 G Wsc | 550 | 3.89 ppb |
| Kingsland Wsc Comanche Rancherias | 537 | 2.48 ppb |
| Paradise Point Subdivision | 528 | 2.45 ppb |
| Buchanan Lake Village | 425 | 6.81 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kingsland, 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 Kingsland Wsc 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.