Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill
Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill serves about 447 people through 149 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 Cherokee County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0370022; phone on file: 903-683-6178. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.63 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill is 0.63 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.63 ppb |
How Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill 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. Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Texas and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cherokee County
26 other systems share Cherokee County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Jacksonville | 14,420 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Cherokee Wsc | 6,951 | 1.22 ppb |
| City Of Rusk | 5,602 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craft Turney Wsc Main | 5,577 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alto Rural Wsc Coldsprings Plant | 2,313 | 1.26 ppb |
| West Jacksonville Wsc | 2,082 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rusk Rural Wsc Crockett St Plant | 1,950 | 1.26 ppb |
| Afton Grove Wsc | 1,677 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gum Creek Wsc | 1,623 | 2.34 ppb |
| Rusk Rural Wsc Loop 343 Plant | 1,506 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill'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 Rusk Rural Wsc Iron Hill 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.