Quail Creek Subdivision, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Quail Creek Subdivision serves about 117 people through 39 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Burnet County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0270078; phone on file: 737-376-2534. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Quail Creek Subdivision's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Quail Creek Subdivision is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
How Quail Creek Subdivision compares
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. Quail Creek Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Texas and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Burnet County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Quail Creek Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Marble Falls | 8,059 | 1.84 ppb |
| City Of Burnet | 7,011 | 1.93 ppb |
| City Of Granite Shoals | 6,795 | 1.43 ppb |
| City Of Bertram | 3,636 | 1.21 ppb |
| City Of Meadowlakes | 2,480 | 3.83 ppb |
| City Of Cottonwood Shores | 2,157 | 1.86 ppb |
| Spicewood Beach | 1,452 | 4.06 ppb |
| City Of Highland Haven Water System | 734 | 2.08 ppb |
| City Of Granite Shoals Sherwood Iii | 675 | 5.87 ppb |
| Ridge Harbor | 573 | 2.13 ppb |
Next steps for Austin, TX
Look up your address in Quail Creek Subdivision's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Quail Creek Subdivision 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.