Shan D Water Supply, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.28 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 Shan D Water Supply
Shan D Water Supply serves about 201 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Rusk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2010042; phone on file: 903-947-2238. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.28 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shan D Water Supply is 1.28 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.28 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Shan D Water Supply 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. Shan D Water Supply's 1.28 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Texas and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Rusk County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shan D Water Supply. 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) |
Next steps for Tatum, TX
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tatum, 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 Shan D Water Supply 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.