Tunis 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
Tunis Wsc serves about 850 people through 388 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 Burleson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0260018; phone on file: 409-272-8639. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.65 ppb from 1.65 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tunis Wsc is 1.65 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.65 ppb |
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. Tunis Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 25th percentile in Texas and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Burleson County
21 other systems share Burleson County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tunis Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Caldwell | 4,358 | 1.12 ppb |
| Deanville Wsc | 2,850 | 3.4 ppb |
| City Of Somerville | 1,556 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaver Creek Wcid 1 | 1,407 | 0.23 ppb |
| City Of Snook | 980 | 5 ppb |
| Lakeview N Marshall Oaks Sommerville Pla | 642 | 0.9 ppb |
| Lyons Wsc | 600 | 4 ppb |
| Cade Lakes Wsc | 510 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yegua Water System | 487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burleson County Mud 1 | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Snook, TX
Look up your address in Tunis 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 Tunis 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.