Northside Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Northside Wsc
Northside Wsc serves about 250 people through 88 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 Wilbarger County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2440003. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.5 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northside Wsc is 2.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
How Northside 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. Northside Wsc's 2.5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Texas and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Wilbarger County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northside Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Vernon | 11,002 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rra Lockett Water System | 705 | 2.5 ppb |
| Rra Hinds Wildcat Water System | 228 | 3.79 ppb |
| Harrold Wsc | 189 | 3.6 ppb |
| Rra Farmers Valley Water System | 156 | 1.98 ppb |
| Rra Box Community Water System | 144 | 4.6 ppb |
| Oklaunion Wsc | 95 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Vernon, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vernon, 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 Northside 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.