Palm Crest, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.25 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Palm Crest
Palm Crest serves about 294 people through 98 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brazoria County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0200617; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Palm Crest's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2.53 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palm Crest is 3.25 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.25 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.53 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Palm Crest's 3.25 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Texas and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Brazoria County
155 other systems share Brazoria County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Palm Crest. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Pearland | 125,828 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Lake Jackson | 27,314 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Alvin | 26,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Angleton | 19,429 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Clute | 10,604 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Freeport | 10,594 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Iowa Colony | 9,978 | - |
| City Of Manvel | 8,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Richwood | 7,605 | 2.26 ppb |
| Brazoria County Mud 6 | 6,926 | 0.7 ppb |
Your move
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 Palm Crest 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.