Is Richwood, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
None of the 3 utilities serving Richwood 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 Clute, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 26.9 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 Richwood’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Clute
Texas · serves 10,604 people · about 2,400 in Richwood
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 26.9 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Richwood
Texas · serves 7,605 people · about 910 in Richwood
1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 44 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Angleton
Texas · serves 19,429 people · about 160 in Richwood
3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17.5 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Richwood
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Richwood, 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 5 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston
Stafford, TX · about 37 miles
Certified for lead and copper
ALS Laboratory Group, Environmental Services Division – Houston, Texas
Houston, TX · about 40 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 Richwood: 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 Richwood
Other towns in Brazoria County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Clute’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