Waskom Rural Wsc, TX
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Waskom Rural Wsc at a glance
Waskom Rural Wsc serves about 1,098 people through 366 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: TX1020054; phone on file: 903-687-2820. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Waskom Rural Wsc's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Waskom Rural Wsc is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Waskom Rural Wsc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Texas and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Harrison County
23 other systems share Harrison County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Waskom Rural 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 Waskom, TX
Look up your address in Waskom Rural 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 Waskom Rural 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.