Bartley Woods Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.46 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Bartley Woods Wsc serves about 735 people through 245 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 Fannin County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0740021; phone on file: 903-583-3309. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bartley Woods Wsc is 1.46 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.46 ppb |
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. Bartley Woods Wsc's 1.46 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Texas and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Fannin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bartley Woods Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bonham | 10,746 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southwest Fannin County Sud | 9,198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bois D Arc Mud | 3,011 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Leonard Wsc | 2,733 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Leonard | 2,691 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Shed Wsc | 2,441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arledge Ridge Wsc | 2,205 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Honey Grove | 2,192 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Ector | 981 | 1.25 ppb |
| Ravenna Nunnelee Wsc | 975 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bonham, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bonham, 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 Bartley Woods 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.