Shady Acres, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Shady Acres serves about 57 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Van Zandt County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2340064; phone on file: 903-526-5100. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.29 ppb from 3.19 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shady Acres is 3.19 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.19 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.07 ppb |
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. Shady Acres's 0.9 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Texas and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Van Zandt County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shady Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Macbee Sud | 8,229 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Wills Point | 7,281 | 4.69 ppb |
| South Tawakoni Wsc | 5,205 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Canton | 5,028 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fruitvale Wsc | 3,747 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ben Wheeler Wsc | 3,324 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Grand Saline | 3,219 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Van | 2,993 | 0 (not detected) |
| R P M Wsc | 2,880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Myrtle Springs Wsc | 2,289 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tyler, 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 Shady Acres 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.