Is Alvin, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
3 of the 15 utilities serving Alvin have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records: Tdcj Ramsey Area, Tdcj Memorial Unit and Pine Colony Mobile Home Park.
City of Alvin, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 31.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. A health benchmark is a level EPA screens with, not a legal limit.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Alvin’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Alvin
Texas · serves 26,244 people · about 2,900 in Alvin
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 31.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Brazoria County MUD 21
Texas · serves 4,833 people · about 200 in Alvin
2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 41.7 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Pearland
Texas · serves 125,828 people · about 150 in Alvin
1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: PFOS at 4.4 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Tdcj Ramsey Area
Texas · serves 5,119 people · about 130 in Alvin
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 29 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Brazoria County MUD 22
Texas · serves 5,310 people · about 100 in Alvin
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 24.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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South Meadows West
Texas · serves 477 people · about 100 in Alvin
2 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 5.2 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Fort Bend County MUD 131
Texas · serves 3,114 people · under 100 in Alvin
2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 3.7 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Arcola
Texas · serves 1,599 people · under 100 in Alvin
2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 6.3 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Hillcrest Village
Texas · serves 813 people · under 100 in Alvin
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 2.7 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Brazoria County MUD 55
Texas · serves 5,229 people · under 100 in Alvin
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 6.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
5 more utilities in Alvin
By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Alvin than those above.
- Village Trace Water Systemserves 480 people · under 100 in Alvin · no health-based violations since 2016
- Tdcj Memorial Unitserves 2,501 people · under 100 in Alvin · 1 health-based violation since 2016
- Pine Colony Mobile Home Parkserves 450 people · under 100 in Alvin · 1 health-based violation since 2016
- Mark V Estatesserves 330 people · under 100 in Alvin · no health-based violations since 2016
- Oak Manor MUDserves 537 people · under 100 in Alvin · no health-based violations since 2016
MUD stands for municipal utility district, a local water and sewer district common in Texas.
Water testing near Alvin
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Alvin, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Brazoria County Health Department Water Laboratory
Angleton, TX · about 15 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston
Stafford, TX · about 21 miles
Certified for lead and copper
City of Houston Health Department, Bureau of Laboratory Services
Houston, TX · about 23 miles
Certified for bacteria
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 TexasWhich ZIP codes are in Alvin: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: TCEQ, drinking water laboratories approved for public water system samples; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Alvin
Other towns in Brazoria County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Alvin’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- About LithiumWhat it does to health, where it comes from, and the certification claim that addresses it.About Lithium
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water