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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
90 people
Connections
30
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Alice, TX
County
Jim Wells
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

78332

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the limit’s level, no violation. 2 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total): Texas’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 21, 2020 to July 15, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the limit’s level, no violation

30.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 30.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 30.8 ppb, in 2025, above EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb. Its highest single sample was 32.8 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 30.2 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for uranium at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 31.4 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

5.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 4.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.5 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 4.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.9 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

6.2ppm

Highest sample; found in 10 of 10

2026 average: 6.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 6.2 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its three samples averaged 6.0 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 5.0 ppm, in 2013.

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

0.89ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 0.82 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.89 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.82 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.8 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

11ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026, one sample: 2.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 11 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 18.3 ppb, in 2013.

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

4.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.7 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 8.9 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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

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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Uranium, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Uranium, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform 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)June 28, 2025—Unaddressed
Lead and Copper Rule RevisionsThe required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL InventoryOct. 17, 2024—Unaddressed
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 446 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, arsenic, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and chromium (total) results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. English Acres’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. 21, 2020 to July 15, 2026.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Corpus Christi -Nueces County Public Health District Laboratory

    Corpus Christi, TX · about 43 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (361) 826-7213

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 TX1250033. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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