LeadPipesCheck

Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc, TX

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.27 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc

Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc serves about 75 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 Sabine County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2020055; phone on file: 409-579-2100. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

That is down 3.36 ppb from 3.63 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc is 3.63 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20260.27 ppb
20233.63 ppb

Where this result ranks

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. Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc's 0.27 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Texas and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).

Neighbouring systems

8 other systems share Sabine County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
G M Wsc12,6720 (not detected)
South Sabine Wsc1,9812.76 ppb
City Of Hemphill1,7790 (not detected)
Beechwood Wsc1,1381.95 ppb
Brookeland Fwsd1,1050 (not detected)
City Of Pineland1,0431.3 ppb
Shawnee Shores2760.54 ppb
El Camino Bay Water System2660 (not detected)

Next steps for Hemphill, TX

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hemphill, 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 Timberlane Estates Property Owners Assoc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.