Lame Duck Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.76 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.
About Lame Duck Water System
Lame Duck Water System serves about 171 people through 57 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bosque County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0180072; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lame Duck Water System is 0.76 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.76 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lame Duck Water System 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. Lame Duck Water System's 0.76 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bosque County
25 other systems share Bosque County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lame Duck 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 Clifton | 3,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rocky Creek Water System | 2,814 | 0 (not detected) |
| Childress Creek Wsc | 2,469 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mustang Valley Wsc | 2,382 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Meridian | 1,415 | 2.4 ppb |
| City Of Valley Mills | 1,203 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Walnut Springs | 795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smith Bend Wsc | 711 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cs Water | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Morgan | 490 | 3.31 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, 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 Lame Duck 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. 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.