Central Bowie County Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.36 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Central Bowie County Wsc serves about 9,210 people through 3,070 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Bowie County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0190024; phone on file: 903-628-5215. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.36 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Central Bowie County Wsc is 2.36 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Central Bowie County Wsc's 2.36 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Texas and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Bowie County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Central Bowie County Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Texarkana Water Utilities | 37,000 | 1.93 ppb |
| Macedonia Eylau Mud 1 | 14,652 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of New Boston | 6,880 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Wake Village | 5,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Redwater | 4,356 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Nash | 3,818 | 0.97 ppb |
| City Of Hooks | 2,518 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burns Redbank Wsc | 2,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Water Resources District | 2,235 | 1.94 ppb |
| City Of Dekalb | 1,511 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Boston, 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 Central Bowie County 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.