Oak River Ranch, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Oak River Ranch at a glance
Oak River Ranch serves about 99 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Somervell County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2130031; phone on file: 817-645-5493. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak River Ranch is 1.4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
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. Oak River Ranch's 1.4 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Texas and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Somervell County
7 other systems share Somervell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Oak River Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Somervell County Water District | 3,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Glen Rose | 2,848 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Retreat Center | 827 | 3.01 ppb |
| Squaw Creek Subdivision Water System | 249 | 0.51 ppb |
| Happy Hill Farm Academy | 238 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orchards On The Brazos | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenfields On Squaw Creek | 78 | 0.81 ppb |
Next steps for Keene, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Keene, 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 River Ranch 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.