Lakeside Water Supply 3, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.16 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Lakeside Water Supply 3 at a glance
Lakeside Water Supply 3 serves about 123 people through 41 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tyler County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2290040; phone on file: 409-837-2111. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.06 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakeside Water Supply 3 is 39.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 5 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.16 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 39.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 23.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 17.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 17 ppb over 15 |
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. Lakeside Water Supply 3's 2.16 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Texas and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Tyler County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakeside Water Supply 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Woodville | 6,069 | 0.69 ppb |
| Tyler County Sud | 5,267 | 0.83 ppb |
| Warren Wsc | 1,834 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ivanhoe Land Of Lakes | 1,738 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Colmesneil | 1,404 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chester Wsc | 1,237 | 1.37 ppb |
| Seneca Wsc | 917 | 0.58 ppb |
| Cypress Creek Wsc | 853 | 3.16 ppb |
| Doucette Water System | 399 | 3.4 ppb |
| White Tail Ridge Lakes Estates | 233 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Colmesneil, 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 Lakeside Water Supply 3 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 5070 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.