Fort Bend County MUD 47

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: 2,874 people
Connections: 958
Water source: Groundwater bought from another system
Based in: Houston, TX
County: Fort Bend
Owner: Local government

The ZIP code it serves

77459

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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 1, 2020 to June 15, 2026.

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

7.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.7 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, 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

1.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

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.

Lead
Nitrate

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fort Bend County MUD 47’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. 1, 2020 to June 15, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Fort Bend County MUD 47’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 Fort Bend County MUD 47 serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston
Stafford, TX · about 7 miles
Certified for lead and copper
(281) 240-4200
ALS Laboratory Group, Environmental Services Division – Houston, Texas
Houston, TX · about 11 miles
Certified for lead and copper
(281) 530-5656
Envirodyne Laboratories, Inc.
Houston, TX · about 11 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
(281) 568-7880

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