Sunchase Subdivision, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.44 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Sunchase Subdivision
Sunchase Subdivision serves about 120 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1230083; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunchase Subdivision is 0.44 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.44 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. Sunchase Subdivision's 0.44 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Texas and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jefferson County
16 other systems share Jefferson County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunchase Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Beaumont Water Utility Dept | 113,567 | 0.83 ppb |
| City Of Port Arthur | 56,039 | 2.35 ppb |
| City Of Nederland | 18,157 | 1.81 ppb |
| City Of Groves | 17,335 | 0.93 ppb |
| City Of Port Neches | 17,043 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Jefferson County Mwd | 9,367 | 0.91 ppb |
| Federal Correctional Complex-Beaumont | 5,748 | 5.72 ppb |
| Jefferson County Wcid 10 | 4,605 | 1.88 ppb |
| Meeker Mwd | 4,071 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bevil Oaks | 1,414 | 3.47 ppb |
Next steps for Austin, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Austin, 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 Sunchase Subdivision 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.