Ellinger Sewer And Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Ellinger Sewer And Wsc
Ellinger Sewer And Wsc serves about 573 people through 202 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 Fayette County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0750014; phone on file: 979-378-2230. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ellinger Sewer And Wsc is 1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
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. Ellinger Sewer And Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Texas and the 23rd 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 Fayette County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ellinger Sewer And Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette Wsc West | 5,802 | 3.15 ppb |
| City Of La Grange | 4,973 | 1.32 ppb |
| City Of Schulenburg | 3,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Flatonia | 1,969 | 5 ppb |
| Fayette Wsc East | 1,866 | 0.42 ppb |
| Fayette County Wcid Monument Hill | 575 | 0.86 ppb |
| City Of Carmine | 375 | 1.02 ppb |
| City Of Fayetteville | 253 | 1.93 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Ellinger Sewer And 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 Ellinger Sewer And 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.