Brandon-Irene Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.56 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.
Brandon-Irene Wsc at a glance
Brandon-Irene Wsc serves about 2,000 people through 819 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 surface water, in Hill County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1090018; phone on file: 254-582-2587. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.77 ppb from 6.33 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brandon-Irene Wsc is 6.33 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.56 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.33 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Brandon-Irene Wsc compares
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. Brandon-Irene Wsc's 2.56 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Texas and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Hill County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brandon-Irene Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Hillsboro | 8,867 | 5 ppb |
| Files Valley Wsc | 4,776 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hill County Wsc | 4,383 | 1.12 ppb |
| Cedar Creek Water System | 3,720 | 0 (not detected) |
| Post Oak Sud | 3,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodrow Osceola Wsc Blanton Well Plant 1 | 2,526 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Bluff | 2,319 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Whitney | 2,237 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birome Wsc | 2,018 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Hubbard | 1,917 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hillsboro, 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 Brandon-Irene 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. 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.