Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.26 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant serves about 2,313 people through 771 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 Cherokee County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0370015; phone on file: 936-858-4658. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.26 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant is 1.26 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.26 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant 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. Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant's 1.26 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Texas and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cherokee County
26 other systems share Cherokee County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Jacksonville | 14,420 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Cherokee Wsc | 6,951 | 1.22 ppb |
| City Of Rusk | 5,602 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craft Turney Wsc Main | 5,577 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Jacksonville Wsc | 2,082 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rusk Rural Wsc Crockett St Plant | 1,950 | 1.26 ppb |
| Afton Grove Wsc | 1,677 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gum Creek Wsc | 1,623 | 2.34 ppb |
| Rusk Rural Wsc Loop 343 Plant | 1,506 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eagles Bluff | 1,485 | 1.45 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alto, 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 Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.