Hamby 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 Hamby Wsc
Hamby Wsc serves about 2,082 people through 694 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 Taylor County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2210006; phone on file: 325-660-6909. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hamby Wsc's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hamby Wsc is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 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. Hamby Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 34th percentile in Texas and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Taylor County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hamby Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Abilene | 130,501 | 0 (not detected) |
| Steamboat Mountain Wsc | 8,178 | 0 (not detected) |
| Potosi Wsc | 7,413 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dyess Air Force Base | 7,183 | 1.94 ppb |
| City Of Merkel | 3,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sun Wsc | 3,420 | 0 (not detected) |
| View Caps Wsc | 2,928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tuscola Taylor County Wcid 1 | 1,890 | 2.01 ppb |
| City Of Buffalo Gap | 1,502 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Tye | 1,176 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Hamby 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 Hamby 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.