Public water system record

City of Fort Worth

Serves Fort Worth and Pecan Acres, Tarrant County, TX · 955,900 people served

Federal records show 1 health-based violation and no monitoring/reporting issues for City of Fort Worth in the last ten years. The most serious issue in this window was a resolved Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule violation.

  • TX2200012
  • FORT WORTH
  • TX
  • 955,900 served

System profile

Source water Surface water
ZIP 76102
EPA system ID TX2200012

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
1
Resolved
1
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
0

Key facts

  • City of Fort Worth draws water from 6 surface water intakes.
  • Record on file since 2002, with 0 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 300,778 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

Contaminant Rule family Start date Status Acute
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
120 Mar 1, 2021 Resolved No

Full record since 2002

EPA's records for City of Fort Worth go back to 2002. Before October 19, 2016 they list no health-based violations and 10 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
2000s 0 7
2010 to October 18, 2016 0 3
2020s 1 0

What the violations mean

Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

1 incident

The system failed required surface water treatment or filtration standards

Untreated or inadequately treated surface water can contain bacteria and viruses

Where the water comes from

City of Fort Worth draws water from 6 surface water intakes. 30 other community water systems and 2 smaller public systems such as schools, businesses or campgrounds buy water from City of Fort Worth. 5 other public water systems have emergency connections to City of Fort Worth.

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

City of Fort Worth must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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Testing your own water

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