Is Whitney, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
2 of the 5 utilities serving Whitney have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Texas’s records: Whitney Resorts and Cedar Crest Colony WSC.
Cedar Creek Water System, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 81.1 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 Whitney’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Cedar Creek Water System
Texas · serves 3,720 people · under 100 in Whitney
1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 81.1 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Whitney
Texas · serves 2,237 people · under 100 in Whitney
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Hill County WSC
Texas · serves 4,383 people · under 100 in Whitney
1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 75.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Whitney Resorts
Texas · serves 289 people · under 100 in Whitney
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Cedar Crest Colony WSC
Texas · serves 132 people · under 100 in Whitney
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
Water testing near Whitney
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to Whitney, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Environmental Monitoring Lab
Hillsboro, TX · about 12 miles
Certified for bacteria
Bio-Chem Lab, Inc.
West, TX · about 19 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
Tarrant County Public Health Laboratory
Fort Worth, TX · about 53 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 TexasZIP codes in Whitney
Which ZIP codes are in Whitney: 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 Whitney
Other towns in Hill County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Cedar Creek Water System’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