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Rusk Rural WSC Crockett St Plant

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
1,950 people
Connections
650
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Rusk, TX
County
Cherokee
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

75785

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 2024.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from July 23, 2020 to June 29, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.3ppb

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.3 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

43.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 35.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 43.4 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 45.6 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 35.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 39.4 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

15.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 15.3 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 16.9 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 15.7 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.36ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024, one sample: 0.19 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.36 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.19 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.43 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.049ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.038 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 0.049 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.038 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.07 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
  • Chromium (total)
  • 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.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 4 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), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Rusk Rural WSC Crockett St Plant’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 July 23, 2020 to June 29, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Rusk Rural WSC Crockett St Plant’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 Rusk Rural WSC Crockett St Plant serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Analytical Environmental Labs

    Tyler, TX · about 33 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 509-8700

  • Northeast Texas Public Health District Laboratory

    Tyler, TX · about 41 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 535-0090

  • Eastex Environmental Lab, Inc.-Nacogdoches

    Nacogdoches, TX · about 43 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (936) 569-8879

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 TX0370031. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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