River Bend Water System, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.22 ppb (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. 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.
River Bend Water System at a glance
River Bend Water System serves about 69 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1810125; phone on file: 936-756-7400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
River Bend Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River Bend Water System is 1.22 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.22 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
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. River Bend Water System's 1.22 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Texas and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Orange County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than River Bend Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Orange | 19,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orange County Wcid 1 | 15,258 | 1.87 ppb |
| Mauriceville Mud | 10,374 | 0.71 ppb |
| City Of Bridge City | 9,546 | 1.98 ppb |
| Orangefield Wsc | 8,231 | 1.06 ppb |
| Orange County Wcid 2 | 4,074 | 0.92 ppb |
| City Of Pinehurst | 3,131 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Rose City | 664 | 1.44 ppb |
| Evergreen Park Hickory Hills Water Syste | 363 | 4.2 ppb |
| Kinard Estates | 254 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Conroe, 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 System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.