Gallatin 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: 996 people
Connections: 332
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Gallatin, TX
County: Cherokee
Owner: Local government

The 2 ZIP codes it serves

75764, 75785

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

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 6.3 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1998. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, arsenic and nitrate: Texas’s own results, samples taken from July 23, 2020 to Sept. 18, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 11, 2017 to Oct. 11, 2017. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.4 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Chromium (Hexavalent) Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Chromium Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 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.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.2 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.044ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.044 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.056 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”

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

Arsenic
Lead
Nitrate
Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Chromium (total), haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, arsenic and nitrate results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Gallatin WSC’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and 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 July 23, 2020 to Sept. 18, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 11, 2017 to Oct. 11, 2017.

Testing your own tap

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

Analytical Environmental Labs
Tyler, TX · about 29 miles
Certified for bacteria
(903) 509-8700
Northeast Texas Public Health District Laboratory
Tyler, TX · about 37 miles
Certified for bacteria
(903) 535-0090
Southern Petroleum Laboratories (SPL), Inc. (FKA Ana-Lab Corporation)
Kilgore, TX · about 42 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
(903) 984-0551

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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