New Prospect Wsc Plant 1, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
New Prospect Wsc Plant 1 serves about 936 people through 312 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 Rusk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2010025; phone on file: 903-655-2551. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Prospect Wsc Plant 1 is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 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. New Prospect Wsc Plant 1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 26th percentile in Texas and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Rusk County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Prospect Wsc Plant 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Henderson | 14,666 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chalk Hill Sud | 4,830 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cross Roads Sud | 4,062 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goodsprings Wsc | 2,541 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of New London | 2,484 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minden-Brachfield Wsc | 2,346 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Overton | 2,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Enterprise Wsc | 2,205 | 1.33 ppb |
| South Rusk County Wsc | 1,947 | 0.6 ppb |
| Gaston Wsc | 1,917 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in New Prospect Wsc Plant 1'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 New Prospect Wsc Plant 1 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.