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Is Freeport, TX tap water safe?

13 utilities serve Freeport, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Texas’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

12 of the 13 utilities serving Freeport have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records: City of Oyster Creek, Jones Creek Terrace, Village of Surfside Beach and 9 more.

City of Freeport, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17.6 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 Freeport’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

3 more utilities in Freeport

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Freeport than those above.

MUD stands for municipal utility district, a local water and sewer district common in Texas.

Water testing near Freeport

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 Freeport, 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

    (979) 864-1628

  • Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston

    Stafford, TX · about 45 miles

    Certified for lead and copper

    (281) 240-4200

  • City of Houston Health Department, Bureau of Laboratory Services

    Houston, TX · about 48 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (832) 393-3939

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 Freeport

Which ZIP codes are in Freeport: 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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