Water Softeners and Water Treatment in Johnson County, TX

Burleson's report, titled Water Quality Report 2024 and published in June 2025, lists total hardness as calcium carbonate at 76.5 to 175 ppm, or 5 to 10 grains per gallon. Its own printed scale calls 7.0 to 10.5 grains, or 120 to 180 mg/L, hard, and anything above that very hard, so the top of Burleson's range is hard water by the city's own measure.

The water comes from Fort Worth's sources: Lake Worth, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Bridgeport, Richland Chambers Reservoir, Cedar Creek Reservoir, Lake Benbrook and the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Chloramines averaged 2.5 ppm in 2024, with a range of 0.9 to 3.9 ppm under the 4 ppm limit.

Fort Worth's own water quality page gives 108 to 150 ppm for 2025, a narrower band than the 76.5 to 175 ppm in Burleson's 2024 report. The two documents cover different years.

An Army Corps of Engineers notice, hosted by the Brazos River Authority, describes an existing pipeline that runs from Aquilla Lake to Pat Cleburne Lake near Cleburne. We have not published Cleburne's own water figures because we could not verify them from the city's report.

Johnson County's groundwater district is Prairielands, whose boundaries match Ellis, Hill, Johnson and Somervell counties, about 2,864 square miles. It describes the Trinity aquifer as early Cretaceous formations of the Trinity Group, with the downdip portion becoming highly mineralized.

For the Woodbine, the district says the formation is water-bearing sandstone interbedded with shale and clay, that chemical quality deteriorates rapidly in wells deeper than 1,500 feet, and that the upper Woodbine holds water of extremely poor quality in downdip areas. The Texas Water Development Board similarly puts fresh Woodbine water above about 1,500 feet, with deeper water slightly to moderately saline.

The CDC advises testing well water at least once every year for total coliform bacteria, nitrates, total dissolved solids and pH.