Rain River Estates, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Rain River Estates at a glance
Rain River Estates serves about 100 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Galveston County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0840267; phone on file: 409-925-5957. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rain River Estates is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Rain River Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Texas and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Galveston County
25 other systems share Galveston County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rain River Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of League City | 149,557 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Texas City | 61,541 | 0.6 ppb |
| City Of Galveston | 52,326 | 3.13 ppb |
| City Of Friendswood | 43,190 | 4.61 ppb |
| Galveston County Wcid 1 | 30,399 | 1.23 ppb |
| Bolivar Peninsula Sud | 18,424 | 3.51 ppb |
| City Of La Marque | 15,154 | 0.58 ppb |
| San Leon Mud | 11,622 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bacliff Mud | 8,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Galveston County Wcid 12 | 8,721 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Santa Fe, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Santa Fe, 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 Rain River 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.