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Grand Castle 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
80 people
Connections
22
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Plainview, TX
County
Hale
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

79072

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic, uranium, fluoride, nitrate, chromium (total), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Texas’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 18, 2020 to April 22, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

3.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 3.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.6 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 3.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.0 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

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

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

7.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.8 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. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.3 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 2.5 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.6 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.5 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.8 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.8ppm

Highest sample; found in 16 of 16

2026, one sample: 3.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2021, was 4.8 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 3.0 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 6.8 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.6 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.0 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.4 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • 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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

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

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: Arsenic, Uranium

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

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.

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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—Resolved
Lead and Copper RuleA required study or plan for corrosion control was not done on time.EPA: OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationApril 1, 2018—Resolved
Lead and Copper RuleA required study or plan for corrosion control was not done on time.EPA: OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationMarch 31, 2018—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 36 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, fluoride, nitrate, chromium (total), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Grand Castle 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 Feb. 18, 2020 to April 22, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Grand Castle 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 2 labs Texas certifies closest to the area Grand Castle Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Lubbock

    Lubbock, TX · about 50 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (806) 794-1296

  • Environmental Monitoring Lab

    Amarillo, TX · about 65 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (806) 335-9393

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 TX0950070. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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