B C Y Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.47 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.
Who runs the water here
B C Y Wsc serves about 3,012 people through 1,004 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 Anderson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0010018; phone on file: 903-723-0361. 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 up 1.47 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for B C Y Wsc is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.47 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.51 ppb |
How B C Y Wsc 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. B C Y Wsc's 1.47 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Texas and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Anderson County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than B C Y Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Palestine | 31,272 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tdcj Coffield Unit | 7,965 | 5.19 ppb |
| Tdcj Beto Unit | 6,613 | 2.5 ppb |
| Brushy Creek Wsc | 4,866 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walston Springs Wsc | 4,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Four Pines Wsc | 3,603 | 2.23 ppb |
| Slocum Wsc | 3,120 | 2.25 ppb |
| City Of Elkhart | 2,871 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neches Wsc | 2,295 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Frankston Downtown Plant | 1,896 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tennessee Colony, 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 B C Y 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.