May Wsc, TX
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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 May Wsc
May Wsc serves about 363 people through 143 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Brown County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0250017; phone on file: 254-259-9928. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
May Wsc's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for May Wsc is 54 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 54 ppb over 15 |
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. May Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Texas and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Brown County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than May Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Brownwood | 18,862 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brookesmith Special Utility District | 13,026 | 0 (not detected) |
| Zephyr Wsc | 7,575 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Early | 3,296 | 2.12 ppb |
| City Of Bangs | 2,964 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Blanket | 369 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brown County Wid 1 | - | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; May, 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 May 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.