Is New Fairview, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
3 of the 15 utilities serving New Fairview 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 Rhome, City of Fort Worth and Aurora Vista.
Shale Creek Community, 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 New Fairview’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Shale Creek Community
Texas · serves 1,476 people · about 370 in New Fairview
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Rhome
Texas · serves 1,680 people · about 300 in New Fairview
1 result above the legal limit. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 76.3 ppb, above the legal limit.
23 health-based violations since 2016
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Chisholm Hills Estates
Texas · serves 867 people · about 200 in New Fairview
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Hills of Oliver Creek the
Texas · serves 732 people · about 190 in New Fairview
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Old Chisolm Estates
Texas · serves 546 people · about 140 in New Fairview
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 3.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Fort Worth
Texas · serves 955,900 people · about 140 in New Fairview
3 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 3 results above the health goal. The worst: PFHxS at 25.8 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Glider Base Estates
Texas · serves 390 people · about 130 in New Fairview
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 2.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Justin
Texas · serves 7,537 people · about 130 in New Fairview
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Aurora Vista
Texas · serves 447 people · about 130 in New Fairview
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.4 ppb, above the health goal.
12 health-based violations since 2016
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Coyote Ridge Addition
Texas · serves 375 people · about 110 in New Fairview
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.1 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
5 more utilities in New Fairview
By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in New Fairview than those above.
- Highland Meadows Water Systemserves 264 people · under 100 in New Fairview · no health-based violations since 2016
- Sunshine Meadows Water Utilityserves 894 people · under 100 in New Fairview · no health-based violations since 2016
- Sky View Ranch Estatesserves 225 people · under 100 in New Fairview · no health-based violations since 2016
- Singing Meadows Subdivisionserves 129 people · under 100 in New Fairview · no health-based violations since 2016
- Foxbane Estates PWSserves 1,455 people · under 100 in New Fairview · no health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near New Fairview
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to New Fairview, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Pace Analytical Services, LLC -Dallas TX
Fort Worth, TX · about 24 miles
Certified for bacteria
Tarrant County Public Health Laboratory
Fort Worth, TX · about 26 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Dallas
Dallas, TX · about 34 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 New Fairview: 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 New Fairview
Other towns in Wise County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Shale Creek Community’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