Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.56 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.
About Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant
Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant serves about 363 people through 121 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Henderson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1070248; phone on file: 903-675-8466. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.56 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
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. Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant's 0.56 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Texas and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Henderson County
60 other systems share Henderson County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Cedar Creek Mud | 24,414 | 2.07 ppb |
| City Of Athens | 17,934 | 3.93 ppb |
| East Cedar Creek Fwsd Brookshire | 14,823 | 0.51 ppb |
| East Cedar Creek Fwsd B A Mckay | 6,753 | 0.84 ppb |
| Virginia Hill Wsc | 4,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carolynn Estates | 3,906 | 3.14 ppb |
| City Of Chandler | 3,663 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherokee Shores Water Supply | 3,402 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leagueville Wsc | 3,285 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Malakoff | 3,039 | 4.09 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 Bethel Ash Wsc Hawn 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.