Is Harker Heights, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
Neither of the 2 utilities serving Harker Heights has 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 Harker Heights, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and Texas’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
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 Harker Heights’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
City of Harker Heights
Texas · serves 35,957 people · about 26,700 in Harker Heights
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
City of Belton
Texas · serves 23,054 people · about 540 in Harker Heights
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Harker Heights
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Harker Heights, 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 46 miles
Certified for lead and copper
Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory Services Section
Austin, TX · about 51 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
Bio-Chem Lab, Inc.
West, TX · about 57 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
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 Harker Heights: 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 Harker Heights
Other towns in Bell County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Harker Heights’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water