Multi-County Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.35 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Multi-County Wsc at a glance
Multi-County Wsc serves about 3,631 people through 1,465 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Coryell County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0500044; phone on file: 254-865-2269. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 8.75 ppb from 11.1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Multi-County Wsc is 11.1 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.35 ppb |
| 2024 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.19 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
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. Multi-County Wsc's 2.35 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Texas and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Coryell County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Multi-County Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Copperas Cove | 41,669 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Gatesville | 16,135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coryell City Water Supply District | 6,042 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fort Gates Wsc | 2,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain Wsc | 2,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Topsey Wsc | 963 | 0.6 ppb |
| The Grove Wsc | 808 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Evant | 455 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Oglesby | 454 | 2.82 ppb |
| Flat Wsc | 180 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Gatesville, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gatesville, 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 Multi-County 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.