Church Hill Wsc, TX
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.7 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Church Hill Wsc
Church Hill Wsc serves about 516 people through 172 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 Rusk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2010008; phone on file: 903-646-0423. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 13.7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Church Hill Wsc is 13.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Church Hill 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. Church Hill Wsc's 13.7 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Texas and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rusk County
32 other systems share Rusk County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Church Hill Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Henderson | 14,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chalk Hill Sud | 4,830 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cross Roads Sud | 4,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goodsprings Wsc | 2,541 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of New London | 2,484 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minden-Brachfield Wsc | 2,346 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Overton | 2,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Enterprise Wsc | 2,205 | 1.33 ppb |
| South Rusk County Wsc | 1,947 | 0.6 ppb |
| Gaston Wsc | 1,917 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Henderson, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Henderson, 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 Church Hill 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.