Old Snake River Estates East, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.31 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 Old Snake River Estates East
Old Snake River Estates East serves about 411 people through 73 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Liberty County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1460016; phone on file: 936-327-3107. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
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 Old Snake River Estates East is 0.31 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2023 | 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. Old Snake River Estates East's 0.31 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Texas and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
68 other systems share Liberty County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Old Snake River Estates East. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Dayton | 15,393 | 1.13 ppb |
| City Of Cleveland | 12,438 | 1.94 ppb |
| Santa Fe Utility | 8,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Liberty | 8,170 | 0.85 ppb |
| Grand San Jacinto Water System | 6,174 | 1.82 ppb |
| Hardin Wsc | 6,132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tarkington Sud | 5,265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camino Real | 5,160 | 0.63 ppb |
| Bella Vista | 3,876 | 0.52 ppb |
| South Cleveland Wsc | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Livingston, 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 Old Snake River Estates East 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.