Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1
Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1 serves about 642 people through 214 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 groundwater, in Anderson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0010007; phone on file: 903-284-5080. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1's lead record
That is down 18.4 ppb from 18.4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1 is 18.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 18.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1 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. Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 22nd percentile in Texas and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Anderson County
23 other systems share Anderson County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Palestine | 31,272 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tdcj Coffield Unit | 7,965 | 5.19 ppb |
| Tdcj Beto Unit | 6,613 | 2.5 ppb |
| Brushy Creek Wsc | 4,866 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walston Springs Wsc | 4,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Four Pines Wsc | 3,603 | 2.23 ppb |
| Slocum Wsc | 3,120 | 2.25 ppb |
| B C Y Wsc | 3,012 | 1.47 ppb |
| City Of Elkhart | 2,871 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neches Wsc | 2,295 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Frankston, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Frankston, 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 Dogwood Springs Wsc Plant 1 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.