Bon Wier Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Bon Wier Wsc
Bon Wier Wsc serves about 494 people through 200 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 Newton County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1760008. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 12.6 ppb from 12.6 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bon Wier Wsc is 12.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 12.6 ppb over 10 |
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. Bon Wier Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Texas and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Newton County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bon Wier Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Newton Wsc | 3,729 | 4.24 ppb |
| City Of Newton | 2,724 | 2.48 ppb |
| Toledo Village Wsc | 1,570 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burkeville Wsc | 699 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jamestown Wsc | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tall Timbers Wsc | 234 | 5.14 ppb |
| Goshen Erets | 52 | 3.21 ppb |
| Shady Lane Subdivision | 45 | 1.71 ppb |
Next steps for Bon Wier, TX
Look up your address in Bon Wier Wsc's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bon Wier 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.