Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID TX2430001
What's in Wichita Falls, TX tap water
Only 9 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Wichita Falls, TX. What was measured is not clean — but most of the picture is missing.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is Atrazine at 33.3x
- !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
- !9 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 18 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.
- −36 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −4 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
- −16 core regulated contaminants never reported (9/27)
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
- Atrazine33.3× the federal limit0–0.1 mg/L · limit 0.003 mg/L
Long-term exposure above the federal limit can affect the cardiovascular and reproductive systems.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
- Chlorine89% of the federal limit3–3.56 mg/L · limit 4 mg/L
Effective and necessary, but high residual levels can cause taste and odor issues; the EPA caps the residual disinfectant level.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+15 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium | 1.5 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Fluoride | 0.731 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Nitrite | 0.0624 mg/L | 1 mg/L |
| Nitrate | 0.345 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.04394 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.031 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Nickel | 0.0013 | — |
| Cryptosporidium | 0 | 0 |
| Giardia lamblia | 0 | 0 |
| Total Coliform | 1 | — |
| Turbidity | 0.9 | — |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | 12.3 | — |
| PFBA | 14.8 ng/L | — |
| PFHxA | 3.7 ng/L | — |
| PFPeA | 6.1000000000000005 ng/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
18 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Wichita Falls, 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)
3 PFAS compounds detected in Wichita Falls, 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.
PFBA
● Detected (no federal limit)PFHxA
● Detected (no federal limit)PFPeA
● Detected (no federal limit)Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Wichita Falls, TX's drinking water comes from surface water, drawn from 4 sources.
Source
- INTAKE 2 - LK ARROWHEAD
- INTAKE 1 - LK KICKAPOO
- INTAKE 3 - SECONDARY TERMINAL RS
- INTAKE 4 - LK KEMP VIA WICHITA RIVER
Treatment
- SWTP PLANT - CYPRESS 1961
- SWTP PLANT - CYPRESS 1987
- SWTP PLANT - JASPER 1951
- + 3 more
Distribution
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.