Lake Livingston Country Sunrise, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.38 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Lake Livingston Country Sunrise serves about 158 people through 63 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1870136; phone on file: 936-327-3107. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lake Livingston Country Sunrise's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Livingston Country Sunrise is 0.38 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.38 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lake Livingston Country Sunrise 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. Lake Livingston Country Sunrise's 0.38 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Texas and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Polk County
55 other systems share Polk County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Livingston Country Sunrise. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Livingston | 15,199 | 1.56 ppb |
| Lake Livingston Pineshadows East | 5,675 | 1.84 ppb |
| Onalaska Wsc | 5,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Livingston Oakridge North | 3,284 | 0.59 ppb |
| Tempe Wsc 1 | 2,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soda Wsc | 2,237 | 0.92 ppb |
| Providence Wsc | 2,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Point | 1,827 | 4 ppb |
| Leggett Wsc | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Corrigan | 1,722 | 0.84 ppb |
Next steps for Livingston, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Livingston, 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 Lake Livingston Country Sunrise 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.