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Garden Acres Subdivision

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
255 people
Connections
85
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Cypress, TX
County
Gregg
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

75604

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. 6 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, chromium (total) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from March 26, 2020 to Sept. 18, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.1 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file.

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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

72ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 35.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 72 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 86.1 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 35.2 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 93.7 ppb, in 2015, and EPA recorded violations in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

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

32.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 18.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 32.1 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 42.3 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 18.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 41.4 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.72ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.72 ppm, in 2025, 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 0.87 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.067ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 0.065 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.067 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.065 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.045 ppm, in 2015.

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.
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

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

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

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

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 20190.085 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 20190.086 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2019 to June 30, 20190.089 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2019 to March 31, 20190.087 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2016 to June 30, 20160.081 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2016 to March 31, 20160.095 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 53 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Garden Acres Subdivision’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 March 26, 2020 to Sept. 18, 2026.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Southern Petroleum Laboratories (SPL), Inc. (FKA Ana-Lab Corporation)

    Kilgore, TX · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (903) 984-0551

  • Environmental Monitoring Lab

    Winona, TX · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 877-9222

  • Northeast Texas Public Health District Laboratory

    Tyler, TX · about 30 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (903) 535-0090

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 TX0920031. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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