Is Santa Fe, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
4 of the 5 utilities serving Santa Fe have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records: K & B Waterworks, Rain River Estates, Lone Pine Subdivision and 1 more.
Galveston County WCID 8, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17.8 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.
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 Santa Fe’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Galveston County WCID 8
Texas · serves 7,065 people · about 2,200 in Santa Fe
1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 17.8 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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K & B Waterworks
Texas · serves 81 people · under 100 in Santa Fe
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Rain River Estates
Texas · serves 100 people · under 100 in Santa Fe
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Lone Pine Subdivision
Texas · serves 141 people · under 100 in Santa Fe
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 2.8 ppb, above the health goal.
6 health-based violations since 2016
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City of Hitchcock
Texas · serves 8,346 people · under 100 in Santa Fe
1 result above the legal limit, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 76.7 ppb, above the legal limit.
6 health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Santa Fe
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Santa Fe, 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 24 miles
Certified for bacteria
A & B Environmental Services, Inc.
Houston, TX · about 29 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
City of Houston Health Department, Bureau of Laboratory Services
Houston, TX · about 30 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 Santa Fe: 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 Santa Fe
Other towns in Galveston County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Galveston County WCID 8’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