Whole House Water Softeners in Bedford

Bedford's water comes off Lake Arlington by way of the Tarrant County Water Supply Project, the Trinity River Authority system that treats that lake's water, and the authority's description of the route puts a Bedford address at its center: treated water is pumped to a pump station and storage site on Murphy Drive and from there into the contracting cities' systems. That station stands at 3521 Murphy Drive in Bedford, where the authority registered a $5,000,000 pumping and electrical improvement project in 2024, with a new 3,234 square foot building for electrical and HVAC equipment. The project has served its cities since 1974. Bedford's 2025 water quality report names the surface source as Lake Arlington and the groundwater sources as two Trinity Aquifer wells it calls Stonegate and Simpson. It also records a stretch when the water was neither: on March 11 to 13, March 20 and 21, April 10 and April 22 of 2025, Bedford drew Fort Worth water through the emergency interconnect during repairs, and repaid the water through the same connection from November 1 to 18.

The report prints the authority's own sample results for the water it sells, and the sample behind Bedford's figure was collected on February 27, 2025: total hardness as calcium carbonate 110 ppm, calcium 38 ppm, magnesium 3.68 ppm, bicarbonate 81 ppm, total alkalinity 81 ppm, total dissolved solids 194 ppm, sodium 27.5 ppm, sulfate 48.9 ppm, chloride 18.4 ppm and conductivity 342 micromhos, with pH between 7.4 and 8.8 across the year. The report traces the hardness to calcium and magnesium deposits that dissolve naturally. At 110 ppm the water is moderately hard on the USGS scale, about 6.4 grains per gallon. The report prints no separate hardness result for the Stonegate and Simpson wells that we could read, so 110 describes the lake water, and that is the great majority of what Bedford delivers.

On an ordinary day a Bedford tap carries Lake Arlington water pumped through Murphy Drive, and 110 ppm is the right expectation. Two things can move it: the wells, a small share of supply whose chemistry the report does not print, and the emergency interconnect, which in 2025 put Fort Worth water in the mains for a handful of days; Fort Worth's own published range is 108 to 150 ppm, so even then the water stayed in the same moderately hard to hard band. A single February sample also tells you one day, not twelve months, and Lake Arlington is kept full with Cedar Creek and Richland Chambers water pumped in from East Texas, so its blend moves with the seasons. For a softener, size with headroom above 110, and have the free water test fix the figure for your tap on the day it is drawn.

Sources: City of Bedford, 2025 Water Quality Report · Trinity River Authority: Tarrant County Water Supply Project · Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, project TABS2024010183 · Trinity River Authority, 2025 brochure · City of Euless: Water and Wastewater page · City of Fort Worth, 2025 Water Quality Report · USGS Water Science School: Hardness of Water