Rural 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: 1,141 people
Connections: 492
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Jasper, TX
County: Jasper
Owner: Local government

The ZIP code it serves

75951

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Texas’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 24, 2020 to July 15, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits1

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.22ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024, one sample: 0.21 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.22 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.21 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.29 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”

7 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Arsenic
Chromium (total)
Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
Lead
Nitrate
Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
Uranium

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or rule	Type	Period	Measured	Status
Lead and Copper Rule Revisions	The required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL Inventory	Oct. 17, 2024	—	Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 12 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Rural 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 Aug. 24, 2020 to July 15, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Rural 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 2 labs Texas certifies closest to the area Rural WSC serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Eastex Environmental Lab, Inc.-Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches, TX · about 51 miles
Certified for bacteria
(936) 569-8879
Eastex Environmental Lab, Inc. -Coldspring
Coldspring, TX · about 69 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
(936) 653-3249

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.

All 80 certified labs for Texas