Point La Vista, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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. 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.
Point La Vista at a glance
Point La Vista serves about 780 people through 260 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Henderson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1070207; phone on file: 903-675-4316. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Point La Vista's lead record
That is down 2.41 ppb from 4.31 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Point La Vista is 26 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.31 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.06 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 26 ppb over 15 |
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. Point La Vista's 1.9 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Texas and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
60 other systems share Henderson County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Point La Vista. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Cedar Creek Mud | 24,414 | 2.07 ppb |
| City Of Athens | 17,934 | 3.93 ppb |
| East Cedar Creek Fwsd Brookshire | 14,823 | 0.51 ppb |
| East Cedar Creek Fwsd B A Mckay | 6,753 | 0.84 ppb |
| Virginia Hill Wsc | 4,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carolynn Estates | 3,906 | 3.14 ppb |
| City Of Chandler | 3,663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Shores Water Supply | 3,402 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leagueville Wsc | 3,285 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Malakoff | 3,039 | 4.09 ppb |
Next steps for Athens, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 Point La Vista 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.