Bell Water, TX
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Bell Water
Bell Water serves about 99 people through 44 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Trinity County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2280034; phone on file: 281-590-4359. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 11 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bell Water is 11 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Bell Water's 11 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Texas and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Trinity County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bell Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Trinity | 4,619 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pennington Wsc | 2,839 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westwood Shores Mud | 2,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trinity Rural Wsc 1 | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendale Wsc | 1,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Groveton | 1,452 | 1.41 ppb |
| Trinity Rural Wsc 3 | 1,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Centerville Wsc | 1,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlake Josserand Wsc | 903 | 1.3 ppb |
| Harbor Point | 856 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Waverly, 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 Bell Water 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.