Is Hutchins, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 4 utilities serving Hutchins 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 Wilmer.
City of Hutchins, 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 Hutchins’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Hutchins
Texas · serves 6,495 people · about 3,200 in Hutchins
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Lancaster
Texas · serves 40,449 people · about 1,100 in Hutchins
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Dallas Water Utility
Texas · serves 1.4 million people · about 960 in Hutchins
2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: PFOA at 6.3 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Wilmer
Texas · serves 7,296 people · about 240 in Hutchins
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
Water testing near Hutchins
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Hutchins, 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
Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. - Plano
Plano, TX · about 28 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
Pace Analytical Services, LLC -Dallas TX
Fort Worth, TX · about 29 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 Hutchins: 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 Hutchins
Other towns in Dallas County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Hutchins’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