Pinwah Pines Estates, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Pinwah Pines Estates
Pinwah Pines Estates serves about 179 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Polk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1870130; phone on file: 737-376-2534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.4 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinwah Pines Estates is 59 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 59 ppb over 15 |
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. Pinwah Pines Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Texas and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Polk County
55 other systems share Polk County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinwah Pines Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Livingston | 15,199 | 1.56 ppb |
| Lake Livingston Pineshadows East | 5,675 | 1.84 ppb |
| Onalaska Wsc | 5,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Livingston Oakridge North | 3,284 | 0.59 ppb |
| Tempe Wsc 1 | 2,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soda Wsc | 2,237 | 0.92 ppb |
| Providence Wsc | 2,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Point | 1,827 | 4 ppb |
| Leggett Wsc | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Corrigan | 1,722 | 0.84 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 Pinwah Pines 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.