Trinity Rural Wsc 3, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Trinity Rural Wsc 3 serves about 1,428 people through 476 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 Trinity County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX2280029; phone on file: 936-594-2192. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Trinity Rural Wsc 3's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Trinity Rural Wsc 3 is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 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. Trinity Rural Wsc 3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in Texas and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Trinity County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Trinity Rural Wsc 3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Trinity | 4,619 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pennington Wsc | 2,839 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westwood Shores Mud | 2,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Trinity Rural Wsc 1 | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glendale Wsc | 1,458 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Groveton | 1,452 | 1.41 ppb |
| Centerville Wsc | 1,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlake Josserand Wsc | 903 | 1.3 ppb |
| Harbor Point | 856 | 0 (not detected) |
| Apple Springs Wsc | 630 | 2.82 ppb |
Next steps for Trinity, TX
Look up your address in Trinity Rural Wsc 3'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 Trinity Rural Wsc 3 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2700 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.