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Is DeSoto, TX tap water safe?

City of Desoto serves DeSoto, 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 Desoto serves DeSoto. In EPA’s and Texas’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

That data covers what its report lists, not everything.

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.

Water testing near DeSoto

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 DeSoto, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Dallas

    Dallas, TX · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (281) 240-4200

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC -Dallas TX

    Fort Worth, TX · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (817) 616-5030

  • Tarrant County Public Health Laboratory

    Fort Worth, TX · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (817) 321-4758

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 DeSoto

Which ZIP codes are in DeSoto: 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.

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