Arrowhead Hill Wsc, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.78 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. 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
Arrowhead Hill Wsc serves about 78 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Bell County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0140149; phone on file: 254-913-1721. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arrowhead Hill Wsc is 21 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.78 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.89 ppb |
| 2022 | 21 ppb over 15 |
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. Arrowhead Hill Wsc's 0.78 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Texas and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Bell County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arrowhead Hill Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Killeen | 161,027 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Temple | 94,935 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Harker Heights | 35,957 | 0 (not detected) |
| Us Army South Fort Cavazos | 35,669 | 2.08 ppb |
| City Of Belton | 23,054 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salado Wsc | 11,460 | 5.26 ppb |
| Bell County Wcid 3 | 7,836 | 0 (not detected) |
| 439 Wsc | 7,836 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bell Milam Falls Wsc | 6,885 | 2.5 ppb |
| City Of Morgans Point Resort | 5,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Belton, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belton, 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 Arrowhead Hill Wsc 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.