Star Country, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Star Country
Star Country serves about 25 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bandera County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0100123; phone on file: 713-824-4640. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Star Country's lead record
That is up 2.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Star Country is 2.1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Star Country's 2.1 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Texas and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bandera County
24 other systems share Bandera County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Star Country. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Medina Shores | 3,660 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Bandera | 3,231 | 2.02 ppb |
| Bandera County Fwsd 1 | 1,092 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bandera River Ranch 1 | 1,053 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bridlegate Subdivision | 882 | 1.2 ppb |
| Flying L Pud | 837 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakewood Water | 816 | 0.8 ppb |
| Medina Wsc | 774 | 0.9 ppb |
| River Bend Estates | 567 | 1.3 ppb |
| Enchanted River Estates | 513 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Pipe Creek, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pipe Creek, 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 Star Country 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.