Sage Brush Estates, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Sage Brush Estates serves about 408 people through 136 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wise County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2490058; phone on file: 737-376-2534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sage Brush Estates is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sage Brush Estates 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. Sage Brush Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Texas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
42 other systems share Wise County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sage Brush Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Decatur Water Plant | 9,087 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bridgeport | 6,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Wise Sud | 3,909 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Runaway Bay | 2,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chisholm Springs | 2,049 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Boyd | 2,044 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Rhome | 1,680 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Chico | 1,596 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Alvord | 1,360 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Newark | 1,232 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Austin, TX
Look up your address in Sage Brush Estates'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 Sage Brush 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.