New Ulm Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
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 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 New Ulm Wsc
New Ulm Wsc serves about 300 people through 183 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 Austin County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0080014; phone on file: 979-992-3699. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
New Ulm 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 New Ulm Wsc is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How New Ulm Wsc compares
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 Ulm Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Texas and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Austin County
12 other systems share Austin County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Ulm Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Sealy | 6,839 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Bellville | 4,206 | 2.2 ppb |
| West End Wsc | 2,910 | 2.12 ppb |
| City Of Wallis | 1,292 | 0 (not detected) |
| Austin County Wsc 1 | 1,080 | 0 (not detected) |
| Austin County Wsc 4 | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Brazos Country | 579 | 0.8 ppb |
| Austin County Wsc 2 | 576 | 0 (not detected) |
| Austin County Wsc 3 | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coushatte Campground | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for New Ulm, TX
Look up your address in New Ulm 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 New Ulm 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.