Is Noonday, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
2 of the 3 utilities serving Noonday 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 Tyler and Walnut Grove WSC.
City of Tyler, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 20 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 Noonday’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Tyler
Texas · serves 107,000 people · about 840 in Noonday
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 20 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
4 health-based violations since 2016
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Southern Utilities
Texas · serves 69,735 people · about 340 in Noonday
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.6 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Walnut Grove WSC
Texas · serves 8,775 people · about 100 in Noonday
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
2 health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Noonday
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Noonday, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Analytical Environmental Labs
Tyler, TX · about 3 miles
Certified for bacteria
Northeast Texas Public Health District Laboratory
Tyler, TX · about 10 miles
Certified for bacteria
Environmental Monitoring Lab
Winona, TX · about 23 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 Noonday: 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 Noonday
Other towns in Smith County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Tyler’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