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City of Hemphill

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
1,779 people
Connections
4,316
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Hemphill, TX
County
Sabine
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

75948

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. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 23, 2020 to Aug. 17, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

18.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 15.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 18.1 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 27.2 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 15.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 34.3 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 6.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 11.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 19.2 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 6.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 32.1 ppb, in 2015.

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

0.22ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.056 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.22 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.056 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.18 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.061ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 0.032 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.061 ppm, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.032 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.05 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 2 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. City of Hemphill’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. 23, 2020 to Aug. 17, 2026.

Testing your own tap

City of Hemphill’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 lab Texas certifies closest to the area City of Hemphill 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 46 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.

All 80 certified labs for Texas

Sources

PWSID TX2020001. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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