Is Taylor Lake Village, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 4 utilities serving Taylor Lake Village has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records: Harris County WCID 50 El Lago.
City of Seabrook, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.8 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 Taylor Lake Village’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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City of Seabrook
Texas · serves 13,560 people · about 1,300 in Taylor Lake Village
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.8 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Harris County WCID 50 El Lago
Texas · serves 3,924 people · about 320 in Taylor Lake Village
1 result above the action level and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Copper at 1.7 ppm, above the action level.
4 health-based violations since 2016
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City of Pasadena
Texas · serves 152,000 people · under 100 in Taylor Lake Village
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 4.9 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Pasadena El Cary Estates
Texas · serves 1,470 people · under 100 in Taylor Lake Village
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 2.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Taylor Lake Village
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Taylor Lake Village, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
A & B Environmental Services, Inc.
Houston, TX · about 18 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
City of Houston Health Department, Bureau of Laboratory Services
Houston, TX · about 24 miles
Certified for bacteria
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -Houston
Stafford, TX · about 32 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 TexasZIP codes in Taylor Lake Village
Which ZIP codes are in Taylor Lake Village: 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 Taylor Lake Village
Other towns in Harris County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Seabrook’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