Town Of Bayside, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Bayside serves about 325 people through 220 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Refugio County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1960007; phone on file: 361-529-6520. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 11 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Bayside is 11 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 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. Town Of Bayside's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Texas and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Refugio County
4 other systems share Refugio County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Bayside. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Refugio | 2,728 | 8 ppb |
| Town Of Woodsboro | 1,233 | 3.31 ppb |
| Refugio County Wcid 1 | 665 | 0.33 ppb |
| City Of Austwell | 147 | 7.23 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Town Of Bayside's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Town Of Bayside 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.