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Spicewood 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
372 people
Connections
124
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Marble Falls, TX
County
Burnet
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

78669

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Texas’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and uranium: Texas’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 26, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits5

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppm

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 0.45 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.5 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.45 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.16 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

18.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 18.8 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 28.8 ppb, in 2019.

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

21.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 21.2 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 1.2 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.1ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2025, one sample: 1.0 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 1.1 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.0 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.9 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.4 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.0 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and uranium results here are Texas’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Spicewood 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 Aug. 26, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Spicewood 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 3 labs Texas certifies closest to the area Spicewood Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Integrity Testing, Inc.

    Austin, TX · about 21 miles

    Certified for lead and copper

    (512) 891-7777

  • Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory Services Section

    Austin, TX · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (512) 458-7318

  • Aqua-Tech Laboratories, Inc.

    Austin, TX · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (512) 301-9559

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.

All 80 certified labs for Texas

Sources

PWSID TX0270118. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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