The water around this address

A property near Weatherford · Parker County, TX

Nothing measured in the water around this address is above a federal drinking-water limit.

Hard enough to scale up a water heater, spot every glass in the dishwasher and stop soap lathering properly
14.6 grains per gallon
softslightlymoderatehardvery hard

Based on the median of tested wells in the same ~7-mile grid square (Texas Water Development Board — Groundwater Database (GWDB)). This describes the groundwater around this property — it is not a test of this well.

What this water likely needs

Water softener (ion exchange)protects the home
Hard water scales water heaters and fixtures and wastes soap and detergent — 14.6 grains per gallon

Sizing a softener here

Hardness removed per day3,285 grains
Suggested size24,000 grain
Regenerationabout every 7 days
Salt use per year343 lb · ~9 bags
Hardness minerals through the plumbing per year171 lb
Sodium a softener adds~115 mg/L

Assumes 3 people using 75 gallons each per day (225 gal/day) — adjust for the actual household.

Area water readings, against their published limits

Hardness
2.1× the industry threshold (WQA)
14.6grains/gal
pH
inside 6.5–8.5
7.4
Iron
17% of the EPA secondary standard
50µg/L
Manganese
22% of the EPA secondary standard
11µg/L
Sulphate
20% of the EPA secondary standard
51mg/L
Chloride
4% of the EPA secondary standard
11mg/L
Nitrate (as NO₃)
1% of the EPA drinking-water limit
0.5mg/L
Arsenic
20% of the EPA drinking-water limit
2.0µg/L
Fluoride
5% of the EPA drinking-water limit
0.2mg/L
Sodium
no published limit to compare
41mg/L
Dissolved solids
75% of the EPA secondary standard
375mg/L

Bars run to 1.5× each limit; the tick is the limit itself. Medians of tested wells in the same ~7-mile grid square, based on 17 measurements from 14 separate wells. The EPA sets no hardness limit — that one is the Water Quality Association's "hard" boundary, the industry convention.

This well (from the driller's report)

Well depth240 ft
Tested yield30 gal/min
Well completed2026-08-07
Next step: a water test on this property confirms the exact readings and sizes any equipment properly.

Where these numbers come from

1. The water readings — Texas Water Development Board — Groundwater Database (GWDB)

Every chemistry figure on this page is the median of 17 laboratory measurements from 14 separate water wells wells in the same ~7-mile grid square collected between 1950 and 2015, taken from Texas Water Development Board — Groundwater Database (GWDB) — a public dataset of water-quality samples from wells across Texas, published as bulk files and updated nightly. We publish a figure for a location only when at least 3 separate wells nearby have been tested; below that we show nothing rather than estimate.

2. The well itself — the driller’s filed report

Depth, yield and completion date come from the record filed with the state for this property, published by Texas Water Development Board — Submitted Driller’s Reports (SDR) — Texas licensed drillers must file a report for every well they complete, within 60 days.

3. The thresholds — published standards, not ours

Where this page says a reading is high, it is compared against the published US EPA National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (health-based limits) and Secondary Drinking Water Standards (taste, odour and staining).

Hardness is the exception: the EPA sets no limit for it at all. The point where a softener becomes the usual recommendation (7 grains per gallon) is the Water Quality Association’s “hard” classification, the industry convention. Either way, we set no thresholds of our own.

What we did, and did not, do

We did not measure, model, estimate or predict anything. No machine learning, no AI, and no attempt to infer what is in this particular well. We took published government measurements from wells near this address, took the middle value (the median), and compared it to published EPA limits. That is the whole calculation, and the same arithmetic on the same public files gives the same answer.

What this is not: a test of this well. Groundwater varies from property to property, and these readings describe the area, not this household’s tap. Nothing here is a statement about whether this water is safe to drink. Only a laboratory test of a sample from this property can tell you what is actually in it.

Check it yourself

  1. Open Texas Water Development Board — Groundwater Database (GWDB) and download or query the water-quality data for TX.
  2. Filter to wells in this county (and to the same 0.1° grid square, if you have the coordinates).
  3. Compare the values against the EPA limits.

Read the full method: hardwaterfeed.com/methodology — every formula and threshold we use, with a worked example. (The sheet you are holding may be printed — that address works from any browser.)

This is the public sample. The street address and the direct link to this well’s filed state report are withheld here. Both appear on every copy a dealer receives — the link opens the record on the state’s own site, so the reader can check the depth, yield and completion date without taking anyone’s word for them.

Compiled from public records published by Texas Water Development Board — Submitted Driller’s Reports (SDR) and Texas Water Development Board — Groundwater Database (GWDB), compared against US EPA drinking-water standards (and, for hardness, the Water Quality Association scale — the EPA sets no hardness limit); sources and method are set out above. Not a test of this well and not a statement about the safety of this household’s drinking water. Generated 2026-09-02.

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