Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID TX0460001
What's in New Braunfels, TX tap water
1 contaminant in New Braunfels, TX's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by TTHM at 1.1x the limit.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is TTHM at 1.1x
- !10 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 17 never appear in this report
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −14 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −14 core regulated contaminants never reported (10/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- TTHM1.1× the federal limit0–90.9 ug/L · limit 80 ug/L
Long-term exposure above the federal limit is linked to liver, kidney, and central-nervous-system effects and increased cancer risk.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+16 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| HAA5 | 0–39.9 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Chlorine Total | 2.64 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| PFHxS (Perfluorohexane sulfonic acid) | 3.7 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Combined Radium | 1.5 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Nitrate | 2.3 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0.66 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Lead | 1.7 ug/L | 15 ug/L |
| Cyanide | 20 ug/L | 200 ug/L |
| Copper | 0.118 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.0367 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | 0.11 ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| Xylenes | 0.0013 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Lithium | 17 | — |
| PFPeA | 3.4 ng/L | — |
| PFHxA | 3 ng/L | — |
| PFBA | 10.200000000000001 ng/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
17 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in New Braunfels, TX's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
PFAS — EPA UCMR5 (2023–2025)
4 PFAS compounds detected in New Braunfels, TX
The EPA finalized the first-ever federal drinking-water limits for six PFAS compounds in April 2024. These numbers come straight from EPA's UCMR5 lab dataset — every U.S. system serving more than 3,300 people tested every PFAS sample at an entry point to its distribution system. PFAS not listed below were either tested and not detected, or not yet sampled.
PFHxS (Perfluorohexane sulfonic acid)
● Below limitPFPeA
● Detected (no federal limit)PFHxA
● Detected (no federal limit)PFBA
● Detected (no federal limit)Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
New Braunfels, TX's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 11 sources.
Source
- 5 - LANDA PARK
- 6 - MOSS ROCK
- INTAKE
- 2 - N CENTRAL
- + 7 more
Treatment
- GUI PLANT - 805 WESTPOINTE / TRINITY
- PLANT - LANDA PARK
- PLANT - LOOP 337
- + 4 more
Distribution
Also buys water from GREEN VALLEY SUD, ALLIANCE REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY 1B.
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based2 violations on record · most recent Oct 1996resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗