Is Liverpool, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 2 utilities serving Liverpool 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 Liverpool.
City of Alvin, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 31.6 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 Liverpool’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
City of Alvin
Texas · serves 26,244 people · under 100 in Liverpool
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 31.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
City of Liverpool
Texas · serves 500 people · under 100 in Liverpool
1 result above the legal limit and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 14.5 ppb, above the legal limit.
6 health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Liverpool
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Liverpool, 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 16 miles
Certified for bacteria
City of Houston Health Department, Bureau of Laboratory Services
Houston, TX · about 27 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston
Stafford, TX · about 27 miles
Certified for 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 Liverpool: 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 Liverpool
Other towns in Brazoria County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Alvin’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- About LithiumWhat it does to health, where it comes from, and the certification claim that addresses it.About Lithium
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water