Water Softeners and Water Treatment in Parker County, TX

Weatherford's 2024 report says the city provides surface water from Lake Weatherford in Parker County, with Benbrook Lake in Tarrant County as a secondary source that the report does not analyze. Total hardness as calcium carbonate measured 178 ppm, with calcium at 52.1 ppm and total dissolved solids at 305 ppm.

At 178 ppm the water sits near the top of the U.S. Geological Survey's hard band, which ends at 180, and at about 10.4 grains it is just under the 10.5 grain line where the Water Quality Association starts calling water very hard. Chloramines ran at a 3.23 ppm running annual average, with single readings from 0.64 to 5.9 ppm.

Aledo's 2024 report says its water comes from both surface and groundwater: surface water supplied by the City of Fort Worth, and groundwater from the Trinity and Paluxy aquifers. It prints total hardness of 76.5 to 175 ppm, or 5 to 10 grains per gallon, the same range Burleson's 2024 report gives for the Fort Worth water it buys. Aledo lists its disinfectant as chlorine and chloramines at 4.0 mg/L.

The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District covers Montague, Wise, Parker and Hood counties. Its management plan says the Trinity Aquifer in the district consists of the Paluxy Sand, Glen Rose, Twin Mountains and Antlers formations, and that in western Parker County, where the Trinity is absent, Paleozoic aquifers are a significant groundwater source. Statewide, the Texas Water Development Board describes Trinity water as fresh but very hard where the aquifer reaches the surface.

District rules require any water well drilled on or after January 1, 2009 to be registered, and the district says to register a new well before drilling; registration gives the owner well spacing protection. TCEQ does not regulate private drinking water wells, and the district keeps a map of North Texas testing labs that are TCEQ accredited and NELAP certified.