Smithwick Mills Community, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Smithwick Mills Community at a glance
Smithwick Mills Community serves about 216 people through 72 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Burnet County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0270045; phone on file: 737-376-2534. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Smithwick Mills Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0.51 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smithwick Mills Community is 0.51 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.51 ppb |
How Smithwick Mills Community 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. Smithwick Mills Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Texas and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Burnet County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Smithwick Mills Community. 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Smithwick Mills Community'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 Smithwick Mills Community 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.