Talley Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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
Talley Wsc serves about 1,737 people through 1,139 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Harrison County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1020023; phone on file: 903-938-4372. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Talley Wsc is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Talley 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. Talley Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Texas and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Harrison County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Talley Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Marshall | 23,091 | 4.39 ppb |
| Gum Springs Wsc 2 | 7,815 | 0 (not detected) |
| Leigh Wsc-Rural | 6,164 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Hallsville | 5,580 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harleton Wsc | 4,107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gum Springs Wsc 1 | 3,564 | 2.14 ppb |
| City Of Waskom | 2,923 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gill Wsc | 2,640 | 1.13 ppb |
| West Harrison Wsc | 1,845 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blocker Crossroads Wsc | 1,836 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Marshall, TX
Look up your address in Talley 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 Talley 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.