River Bend Water Services, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
River Bend Water Services serves about 100 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Matagorda County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1610030; phone on file: 979-241-1153. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River Bend Water Services is 18.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 18.3 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. River Bend Water Services's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Texas and the 10th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Matagorda County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than River Bend Water Services. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bay City | 18,061 | 3.6 ppb |
| City Of Palacios | 4,700 | 0.9 ppb |
| Caney Creek Mud Of Matagorda County | 2,764 | 2.12 ppb |
| Matagorda Wsc | 1,746 | 2.5 ppb |
| Matagorda County Wcid 6 | 1,518 | 0 (not detected) |
| Markham Mud | 1,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Matagorda County Wcid 5 | 1,128 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tres Palacios Oaks Subdivision | 774 | 1.03 ppb |
| Selkirk Wsc | 678 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wadsworth Wsc | 570 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Matagorda, 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 River Bend Water Services whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1800 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.