Oak Ridge Estates, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.19 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
Oak Ridge Estates serves about 63 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Hunt County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1160079; phone on file: 512-990-4400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Oak Ridge Estates's lead record
That is up 5.62 ppb from 1.57 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Ridge Estates is 7.19 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.19 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.57 ppb |
How Oak Ridge Estates 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. Oak Ridge Estates's 7.19 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Texas and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
28 other systems share Hunt County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Ridge Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Greenville | 33,354 | 1.92 ppb |
| Cash Sud | 25,875 | 3.6 ppb |
| Caddo Basin Sud | 14,748 | 1.39 ppb |
| City Of Commerce | 9,266 | 1.77 ppb |
| Combined Consumers Sud | 9,087 | 2.45 ppb |
| B H P Wsc | 6,321 | 1.66 ppb |
| Hickory Creek Sud | 5,373 | 1.15 ppb |
| North Hunt Sud | 4,836 | 0.94 ppb |
| City Of Caddo Mills | 4,688 | 1.49 ppb |
| East Texas A&M University | 4,350 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Austin, TX
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 Oak Ridge Estates 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.