Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.17 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 Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi
Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi serves about 1,497 people through 499 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 Montgomery County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1700317; phone on file: 281-356-5060. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi's lead record
That is up 1.17 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi is 5.83 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.17 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 5.83 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. Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi's 1.17 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Texas and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montgomery County
332 other systems share Montgomery County; 74 of them have a higher latest lead result than Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Conroe | 113,912 | 0 (not detected) |
| Porter Special Utility District | 26,388 | 0.59 ppb |
| Montgomery Trace Water System | 25,917 | 0.41 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 46 | 24,399 | 2.31 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 47 | 24,171 | 0.7 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 67 | 16,821 | 0.83 ppb |
| Montgomery County Mud 60 | 15,036 | 3.16 ppb |
| New Caney Mud | 14,307 | 1.54 ppb |
| City Of Willis | 14,133 | 0.7 ppb |
| Southern Montgomery County Mud | 13,372 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pinehurst, 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 Towering Oaks And Rosewood Hills Subdivi 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.