Woods Creek Wsc, TX
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.32 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.
Woods Creek Wsc at a glance
Woods Creek Wsc serves about 300 people through 104 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 Polk County, Texas. EPA system ID: TX1870004; phone on file: 936-328-1361. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woods Creek Wsc is 0.32 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.32 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Woods Creek Wsc's 0.32 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Texas and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
55 other systems share Polk County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woods Creek Wsc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Livingston | 15,199 | 1.56 ppb |
| Lake Livingston Pineshadows East | 5,675 | 1.84 ppb |
| Onalaska Wsc | 5,289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Livingston Oakridge North | 3,284 | 0.59 ppb |
| Tempe Wsc 1 | 2,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soda Wsc | 2,237 | 0.92 ppb |
| Providence Wsc | 2,051 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Point | 1,827 | 4 ppb |
| Leggett Wsc | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Corrigan | 1,722 | 0.84 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Livingston, 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 Woods Creek 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.