Lakewood Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.11 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.
About Lakewood Water System
Lakewood Water System serves about 48 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in San Augustine County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2030006; phone on file: 936-897-3102. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.11 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakewood Water System is 1.11 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.11 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Texas systems
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. Lakewood Water System's 1.11 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Texas and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in San Augustine County
12 other systems share San Augustine County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakewood Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of San Augustine | 1,971 | 0 (not detected) |
| San Augustine Rural Wsc | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Wsc | 1,128 | 1.23 ppb |
| Denning Wsc | 648 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Broaddus | 406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parkway Water System | 322 | 0.31 ppb |
| Powell Point Water System | 307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Anthony Harbor Subdivision | 108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glen Oaks Water System | 87 | 1.15 ppb |
| Hickory Hollow Water System | 67 | 2.67 ppb |
Next steps for Huntington, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huntington, 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 Lakewood Water System 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.