Is Socorro, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
None of the 3 utilities serving Socorro has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records.
Lower Valley Water District, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 75.7 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 Socorro’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Lower Valley Water District
Texas · serves 59,049 people · about 23,700 in Socorro
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 75.7 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
El Paso Water Utilities
Texas · serves 747,168 people · about 3,900 in Socorro
1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: PFOS at 8.5 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Horizon Regional MUD
Texas · serves 31,542 people · about 360 in Socorro
3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 81.5 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
MUD stands for municipal utility district, a local water and sewer district common in Texas.
Water testing near Socorro
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Socorro, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
International Water Quality Lab
El Paso, TX · about 15 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
City of El Paso Department of Public Health
El Paso, TX · about 22 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -El Paso
El Paso, TX · about 24 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 Socorro: 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 Socorro
Other towns in El Paso County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Lower Valley Water District’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