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Is Bedford, TX tap water safe?

City of Bedford serves Bedford, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Texas’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Bedford serves Bedford. In EPA’s and Texas’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 4.3 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Bedford’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Bedford

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Texas certifies.

The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Bedford, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC -Dallas TX

    Fort Worth, TX · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (817) 616-5030

  • Tarrant County Public Health Laboratory

    Fort Worth, TX · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (817) 321-4758

  • Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Dallas

    Dallas, TX · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (281) 240-4200

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

ZIP codes in Bedford

Which ZIP codes are in Bedford: 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 Bedford

Other towns in Tarrant County with a page of their own.

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