The Coves Wsc, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.59 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
The Coves Wsc at a glance
The Coves Wsc serves about 648 people through 217 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Travis County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2270324; phone on file: 949-244-4662. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.59 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Coves Wsc is 16.1 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.59 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.48 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.87 ppb |
| 2023 | 16.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 11 ppb over 10 |
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. The Coves Wsc's 1.59 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Texas and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
87 other systems share Travis County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Coves Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Austin Water & Wastewater | 1,115,323 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Pflugerville | 63,464 | 1.1 ppb |
| Travis County Wcid 17 | 45,165 | 2.95 ppb |
| Manville Wsc | 39,648 | 1.41 ppb |
| West Travis County Public Utility Agency | 35,664 | 2.2 ppb |
| Windermere Community | 21,231 | 1.94 ppb |
| City Of Manor | 19,620 | 1.2 ppb |
| Wells Branch Mud 1 | 18,015 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northtown Mud | 11,520 | 0.44 ppb |
| North Austin Mud 1 | 11,133 | 0 (not detected) |
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 The Coves Wsc 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.