Barton 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: 1,104 people
Connections: 368
Water source: Surface water bought from another system
Based in: Gordon, TX
County: Erath
Owner: Local government

The 3 ZIP codes it serves

76453, 76462, 76463

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. 4 health-based violations since 2016.

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and nitrate: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 27, 2020 to July 6, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits3

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

31.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 25.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 31.4 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 47.2 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 25.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 17.8 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

21.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 19.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 21.4 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 33.5 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 19.7 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 145 ppb, in 2015, and EPA recorded violations in 2015 and 2016.

What handles it

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.63ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 0.19 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.63 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.19 ppm.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

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

Lead

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or rule	Type	Period	Measured	Status
Revised Total Coliform Rule	Coliform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)	Oct. 1, 2017	—	Resolved
TTHM	The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average	July 1, 2016 to Sept. 30, 2016	0.11 MG/L	Resolved
TTHM	The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average	April 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016	0.14 MG/L	Resolved
TTHM	The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average	Jan. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2016	0.14 MG/L	Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 7 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and nitrate results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Barton 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 Jan. 27, 2020 to July 6, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Barton 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 Barton WSC serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER)
Stephenville, TX · about 17 miles
Certified for bacteria
(254) 968-9570
Tarrant County Public Health Laboratory
Fort Worth, TX · about 56 miles
Certified for bacteria
(817) 321-4758
Pace Analytical Services, LLC -Dallas TX
Fort Worth, TX · about 65 miles
Certified for bacteria
(817) 616-5030

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