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Lakeshore Sites Water

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
77 people
Connections
107
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Haskell, TX
County
Haskell
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

79521

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Nitrate, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Texas’s own results, samples taken from March 10, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

11.1ppm

Highest sample; found in 28 of 28

2026 average: 3.4 ppm

One sample, in 2025, was above EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm, at 11.1 ppm. The next sample at the same point, within 30 days, brought the average back under the limit. 10 ppm is also EPA’s health goal. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 3.4 ppm. EPA recorded no violation for nitrate at this utility since 2020.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

76.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 55 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 76.5 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 84.8 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 55 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 723 ppb, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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

37.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 28.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 37.1 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 46.6 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 28.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 158 ppb, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012, 2013 and 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • 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: Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)

    For: Nitrate

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction

    For: Nitrate

    Other certifiers’ wording: Nitrate

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 13 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, 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. Lakeshore Sites Water’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 10, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Lakeshore Sites Water’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 Lakeshore Sites Water serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Abilene–Taylor County Public Health District

    Abilene, TX · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (325) 692-5600

  • Sweetwater -Nolan County Health Department

    Sweetwater, TX · about 62 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (325) 235-5463

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 TX1040019. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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