Turlington Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Turlington Wsc serves about 345 people through 115 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 Freestone County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX0810017; phone on file: 903-389-2881. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Turlington Wsc's lead record
That is down 1.81 ppb from 1.81 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turlington Wsc is 1.81 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.81 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.39 ppb |
Against other Texas systems
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. Turlington Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Texas and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Freestone County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Turlington Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Teague | 5,688 | 5.03 ppb |
| South Freestone County Wsc | 3,753 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Fairfield | 3,005 | 2.58 ppb |
| Southern Oaks Water Supply | 2,304 | 3.08 ppb |
| Butler Wsc | 1,842 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasant Grove Wsc | 1,839 | 0.4 ppb |
| City Of Fairfield Boyd Unit | 1,690 | 2.39 ppb |
| City Of Fairfield Westwood Utility | 1,563 | 1.38 ppb |
| City Of Wortham | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Streetman | 573 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fairfield, TX
Look up your address in Turlington 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 Turlington 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.