Fairplay Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Fairplay Wsc
Fairplay Wsc serves about 738 people through 246 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 Panola County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1830007; phone on file: 903-678-9073. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairplay Wsc is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Fairplay Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Texas and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Panola County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairplay Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Carthage | 6,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hollands Quarter Wsc | 1,605 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deadwood Wsc | 1,176 | 0.89 ppb |
| City Of Beckville | 1,152 | 0.57 ppb |
| Clayton Wsc Plant 2 | 1,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deberry Wsc | 1,101 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rehobeth Wsc | 1,095 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rock Hill Wsc | 1,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gary Wsc | 1,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Murvaul Wsc | 999 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Fairplay 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 Fairplay 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.