Bluegrove Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 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. 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.
Bluegrove Wsc at a glance
Bluegrove Wsc serves about 66 people through 37 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 Clay County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0390014. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Bluegrove Wsc's lead record
That is up 3.9 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bluegrove Wsc is 5.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.68 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Bluegrove Wsc's 5.3 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Texas and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clay County
7 other systems share Clay County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bluegrove Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Henrietta | 3,111 | 2.9 ppb |
| Dean Dale Sud | 2,492 | 1.7 ppb |
| Rra Arrowhead Lake Lots | 1,770 | 0.6 ppb |
| City Of Petrolia | 514 | 2.49 ppb |
| City Of Byers | 446 | 0.6 ppb |
| City Of Bellevue | 289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charlie Wsc | 80 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bluegrove, 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 Bluegrove 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.