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Shuler Point Water System

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
33 people
Connections
17
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Clifton, TX
County
Bosque
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

76634

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Fluoride, above the legal limit. 8 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Fluoride, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 27, 2020 to Aug. 6, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

4.8ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 2.0 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.8 ppm, in 2023, above EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 6.4 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 2.0 ppm. EPA recorded violations for fluoride at this utility in 2023 and 2024. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.8 ppm, in 2016, and EPA recorded violations in 2017 and 2019.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.9ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.016 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.9 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.016 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.041 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

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

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 3.3 ppb, in 2016.

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

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.5 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • 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.”

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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
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2024 to March 31, 20244.4 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2023 to Dec. 31, 20234.8 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 20235.2 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2023 to June 30, 20234.5 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 20194.1 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2017 to Dec. 31, 20174.3 MG/LResolved
FluorideThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2017 to Sept. 30, 20174.1 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 13 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Shuler Point Water System’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. 27, 2020 to Aug. 6, 2026.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Bio-Chem Lab, Inc.

    West, TX · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (254) 829-8001

  • Environmental Monitoring Lab

    Hillsboro, TX · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (254) 582-2622

  • Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER)

    Stephenville, TX · about 50 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (254) 968-9570

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 TX0180041. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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