Spring Hill Estates, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Spring Hill Estates serves about 237 people through 79 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Denton County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0610218; phone on file: 512-990-4400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Hill Estates is 0.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.6 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. Spring Hill Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th 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
73 other systems share Denton County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Hill Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Denton | 150,037 | 1.5 ppb |
| City Of Lewisville | 140,880 | 1.48 ppb |
| Mustang Sud | 127,911 | 1.33 ppb |
| Town Of Flower Mound | 80,000 | 1.6 ppb |
| City Of The Colony | 45,367 | 0.62 ppb |
| Town Of Little Elm | 43,348 | 2.17 ppb |
| City Of Corinth | 23,213 | 2.3 ppb |
| Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority | 17,826 | 2.78 ppb |
| City Of Highland Village | 16,500 | 2.62 ppb |
| Trophy Club Mud 1 | 13,649 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Austin, TX
Look up your address in Spring Hill 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 Spring Hill 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.