Paint Creek Wsc, 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
Paint Creek Wsc serves about 290 people through 638 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 surface water, in Haskell County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1040017; phone on file: 325-773-3319. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paint Creek Wsc 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. Paint Creek Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Texas and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Haskell County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paint Creek Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Haskell | 3,431 | 5.14 ppb |
| City Of Rule | 948 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Rochester | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Weinert | 162 | 3.8 ppb |
| Sagerton Wsc | 120 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Obrien | 87 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeshore Sites Water | 77 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haskell County Wsd 1 | - | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Paint Creek 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 Paint Creek 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.