Water quality
Your city's water, by the numbers
Tap water in Buda, Kyle, San Marcos, New Braunfels, and Bastrop is safe to drink and meets state and federal standards. It also runs very hard, from 12 to 18 grains per gallon depending on the city. These pages hold the numbers for every city we serve, cited to official reports.
We publish them because homeowners ask us what's actually in their water, and the answer shouldn't require a sales visit. Everything comes from each city's Consumer Confidence Report and TCEQ's compliance records, linked on every page.
The hardness picture
Every city we serve is past the very hard line
The Water Quality Association calls anything over 10.5 grains per gallon very hard. Here's where each city's reported hardness lands on that scale.
Every city we serve reports water hardness above 10.5 grains per gallon, the level the Water Quality Association calls very hard.
Very hard
Starts at 10.5 gpg on the WQA scale
Buda
15 to 18 gpg
Kyle
16 to 17 gpg
San Marcos
14 to 18 gpg
New Braunfels
16 to 17 gpg
Bastrop
12 to 18 gpg
How to read these pages
The safety layer is the utility's job. Regulated substances have legal limits, get monitored constantly, and show up in each city's annual report. On that layer, every city we serve passes.
Hardness and chlorine taste sit in a different category. They aren't health problems, so the EPA sets no health limits for them. They're the numbers you feel every day, in spotted dishes, stiff laundry, and pool-taste water, and they're what treatment fixes. That's why these pages lead with them.
Get your tap's own numbers
The city reports cover the system. The free in-home test measures hardness, chlorine, iron, and TDS at your own tap, and you keep the results.
What you get
- Hardness, chlorine, iron, and TDS tested at your tap
- Results explained in plain English, yours to keep
- A recommendation sized to your home (only if you want one)