Silver Creek Village Wsc, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.89 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Silver Creek Village Wsc serves about 312 people through 104 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Burnet County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0270021; phone on file: 281-507-9723. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Silver Creek Village Wsc's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.79 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Silver Creek Village Wsc is 365 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.89 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.79 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.69 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.62 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2022 | 365 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 21 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. Silver Creek Village Wsc's 0.89 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Texas and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Burnet County
31 other systems share Burnet County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Silver Creek Village Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Marble Falls | 8,059 | 1.84 ppb |
| City Of Burnet | 7,011 | 1.93 ppb |
| City Of Granite Shoals | 6,795 | 1.43 ppb |
| City Of Bertram | 3,636 | 1.21 ppb |
| City Of Meadowlakes | 2,480 | 3.83 ppb |
| City Of Cottonwood Shores | 2,157 | 1.86 ppb |
| Spicewood Beach | 1,452 | 4.06 ppb |
| City Of Highland Haven Water System | 734 | 2.08 ppb |
| City Of Granite Shoals Sherwood Iii | 675 | 5.87 ppb |
| Ridge Harbor | 573 | 2.13 ppb |
Next steps for Burnet, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burnet, 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 Silver Creek Village Wsc 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.