Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative at a glance
Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative serves about 56 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kerr County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1330176; phone on file: 210-288-8462. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative is 3.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 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. Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative's 0.8 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
66 other systems share Kerr County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Kerrville | 30,530 | 3.34 ppb |
| Ingram Water Supply | 5,955 | 1.1 ppb |
| Loma Vista Water System | 3,720 | 1.8 ppb |
| Four Seasons | 1,059 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Hills | 1,005 | 1.9 ppb |
| Kerrville Va Hospital | 1,000 | 2.24 ppb |
| Erlund Subdivision | 821 | 0.7 ppb |
| Guadalupe Heights Utility | 678 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ingram Oaks Retirement Community | 669 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Forest South Water Supply | 648 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kerrville, 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 Saddle Mountain Water Cooperative 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.