Wellborn Acres, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.65 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
Wellborn Acres serves about 69 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brazoria County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0200211; phone on file: 512-990-4400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 23.35 ppb from 24 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wellborn Acres is 24 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.65 ppb |
| 2016 | 24 ppb over 15 |
How Wellborn Acres compares
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. Wellborn Acres's 0.65 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Texas and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
155 other systems share Brazoria County; 53 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wellborn Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Pearland | 125,828 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Lake Jackson | 27,314 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Alvin | 26,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Angleton | 19,429 | 2.04 ppb |
| City Of Clute | 10,604 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Freeport | 10,594 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Iowa Colony | 9,978 | - |
| City Of Manvel | 8,437 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Richwood | 7,605 | 2.26 ppb |
| Brazoria County Mud 6 | 6,926 | 0.7 ppb |
Your move
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 Wellborn Acres 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.