Wickson Sud Wheelock, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.48 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Wickson Sud Wheelock serves about 499 people through 192 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 Robertson County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1980010; phone on file: 979-589-3030. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.62 ppb from 0.86 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wickson Sud Wheelock is 5.48 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.48 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.86 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. Wickson Sud Wheelock's 5.48 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Texas and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Robertson County
7 other systems share Robertson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wickson Sud Wheelock. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Hearne | 4,959 | 0 (not detected) |
| Robertson County Wsc | 3,611 | 0.44 ppb |
| City Of Franklin | 1,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twin Creek Wsc | 1,400 | 0.43 ppb |
| City Of Calvert | 962 | 2.2 ppb |
| City Of Bremond | 858 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Forest Lakeway Manor | 159 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bryan, TX may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Wickson Sud Wheelock 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.