Tall Timbers Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.14 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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 Tall Timbers Wsc
Tall Timbers Wsc serves about 234 people through 84 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 Newton County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1760015; phone on file: 409-565-4012. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tall Timbers Wsc is 5.14 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.14 ppb |
How Tall Timbers 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. Tall Timbers Wsc's 5.14 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Texas and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Newton County
8 other systems share Newton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tall Timbers Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| South Newton Wsc | 3,729 | 4.24 ppb |
| City Of Newton | 2,724 | 2.48 ppb |
| Toledo Village Wsc | 1,570 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burkeville Wsc | 699 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bon Wier Wsc | 494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jamestown Wsc | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goshen Erets | 52 | 3.21 ppb |
| Shady Lane Subdivision | 45 | 1.71 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burkeville, 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 Tall Timbers 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.