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Gardendale Mobile Home and Rv Park

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
93 people
Connections
31
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Surprise, TX
County
Ector
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, 1 more is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded, and 2 more are above the health goal. The worst: Nitrate, above the legal limit. 12 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2026.

Nitrate, arsenic, uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and chromium (total): Texas’s own results, samples taken from Dec. 3, 2025 to Sept. 10, 2026.

Above the legal limit1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Above the legal limit

11.5ppm

Highest sample; found in 4 of 4

2026 average: 9.9 ppm

From 2025 to 2026, two samples were above EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm, the highest 11.5 ppm in 2025. Two have no follow-up sample on file within 30 days. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 9.9 ppm. EPA recorded violations for nitrate at this utility in 2025 and 2026.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the limit’s level, no violation

11ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025 to 2026

2026 average: 9.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 11 ppb, in 2025, above EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 9.5 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for arsenic 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.

What handles it

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

Above the health goal2

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

8.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.0 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.1ppb

90th percentile, 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.1 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppm

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

16.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 16.5 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

16.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 16.3 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.9 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

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

    Claims: Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge), Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Arsenic, Lead

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

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium, Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Arsenic, Uranium, Lead

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

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJan. 1, 2026 to March 31, 202611 MG/LArchived
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleOct. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 202512 MG/LArchived
ArsenicThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2017 to June 30, 20170.011 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleApril 1, 2017 to June 30, 201711.7 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJan. 1, 2017 to March 31, 201712 MG/LResolved
ArsenicThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2017 to March 31, 20170.011 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleOct. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 201611 MG/LResolved
ArsenicThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 20160.011 MG/LResolved
ArsenicThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2016 to Sept. 30, 20160.011 MG/LResolved
ArsenicThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2016 to June 30, 20160.012 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleApril 1, 2016 to June 30, 201611 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJan. 1, 2016 to March 31, 201611 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 32 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, uranium, fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and chromium (total) results here are Texas’s own from 2025 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Gardendale Mobile Home and Rv Park’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 Dec. 3, 2025 to Sept. 10, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Gardendale Mobile Home and Rv Park’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.

No lab Texas certifies is within 75 miles of the area Gardendale Mobile Home and Rv Park serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

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 TX0680148. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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