South Texas Childrens Home, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
South Texas Childrens Home serves about 116 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bee County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0130016; phone on file: 361-375-2417. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Texas Childrens Home is 6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
How South Texas Childrens Home 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. South Texas Childrens Home's 6 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bee County
6 other systems share Bee County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than South Texas Childrens Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Beeville | 13,664 | 2 ppb |
| Tdcj Chase Field | 5,669 | 10.3 ppb |
| Skidmore Wsc | 777 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pettus Mud | 650 | 3.5 ppb |
| Tynan Wsc | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hilltop Mobile Home Park | 85 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beeville, 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 South Texas Childrens Home 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.