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Fall Branch Estates

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
60 people
Connections
20
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Barker, TX
County
Kerr
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

78025

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total): Texas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 3, 2020 to Nov. 30, 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.9 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.9 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

10ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2022

2022: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 10 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2022, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

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

2.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2022

2022: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.3 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2022, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.09ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 4

2023: not found

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.09 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

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)
  • 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.”

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.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
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. 239 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic and chromium (total) results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fall Branch Estates’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 Sept. 3, 2020 to Nov. 30, 2023.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Environmental Monitoring Lab

    Llano, TX · about 55 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (325) 247-3295

  • Alamo Analytical Laboratories, Ltd.

    San Antonio, TX · about 61 miles

    Certified for lead and copper

    (210) 340-8121

  • San Antonio Testing Laboratory, LLC

    San Antonio, TX · about 64 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (210) 229-9920

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 TX1330178. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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