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Leveretts Chapel WSC

What EPA’s and Texas’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
705 people
Connections
235
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Laird Hill, TX
County
Rusk
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

75684

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 21, 2020 to July 21, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

87.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 40.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 87.5 ppb, in 2020, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 109 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 40.3 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 77.3 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

39.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 25.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 39.9 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 63.3 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 25.3 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 34.3 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

8.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.7 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 10.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.32ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.32 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.38 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.032ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.032 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 0.032 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 0.032 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.05 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 10 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Leveretts Chapel WSC’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Texas’s results run from Sept. 21, 2020 to July 21, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Leveretts Chapel WSC’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Texas certifies.

The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to the area Leveretts Chapel WSC serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Southern Petroleum Laboratories (SPL), Inc. (FKA Ana-Lab Corporation)

    Kilgore, TX · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (903) 984-0551

  • Environmental Monitoring Lab

    Winona, TX · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 877-9222

  • Analytical Environmental Labs

    Tyler, TX · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 509-8700

Texas Well Owner Network, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: Well Informed screening events, where well owners bring in water samples to be screened for common contaminants, followed by an hour-long session explaining the results. Upcoming events are on the network's calendar. Trainings, Texas Well Owner Network.

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Sources

PWSID TX2010036. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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