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HOW HARD IS BURLESON’S WATER?
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108 to 150 ppm. That is 6.3 to 8.8 grains per gallon.
The Burleson water quality report gives hardness as a range, 108 to 150 ppm, and prints no average, so we show the range rather than a number it never published. On the USGS hardness scale that spans moderately hard to hard water. Where your home falls in that range depends on the day and the season; a free water test tells you the number at your tap.
COMMON SIGNS OF HARD WATER
What 6.3 to 8.8 grains per gallon looks like at home.
At 6.3 to 8.8 grains per gallon, these show up across Burleson; the high end of the range brings them faster. The water test tells you where your home sits.
Cloudy glassware and white spots the dishwasher cannot rinse off: 6.3 to 8.8 grains of dried mineral per gallon.
The white crust is limescale. It narrows spray holes and seizes aerators and valves.
Calcium and magnesium react with soap before it foams: more soap, and scum on tubs and shower doors.
The same soap curd settles on skin and hair and does not rinse away.
Minerals bind to fabric and detergent. Towels come out stiff, whites go grey, colors fade sooner.
Scale coats heating elements and clogs small valves, so appliances work harder and fail sooner.
BURLESON’S WATER, BY HARDNESS
Fort Worth water through two meter points, 108 to 150 ppm, moderately hard to hard
Burleson has bought its treated water from Fort Worth since 1963, and the current wholesale contract runs from January 1, 2011 to September 30, 2031. The water arrives from Fort Worth's Southside II pressure plane through the connection the contract calls Meter #1 and 2, with a second feed from the Southside III plane, and Burleson's own pump stations, Industrial and Hulen, lift it into two pressure planes of the city's own, a lower plane at 894 feet and an upper plane at 1,000 feet. A 2023 amendment raised the capacity Burleson may take at its eastern delivery point from 2 to 13 million gallons a day, paid for with new 36-inch and 42-inch mains on Fort Worth's side, and the city is replacing the Industrial Park Boulevard pump station with one rated 8.5 million gallons a day beside a new two-million-gallon ground tank. The contract amendment also notes that Burleson, Crowley and the Bethesda Water Supply Corporation hold separate agreements with Fort Worth but may share connection points. None of that changes the chemistry: every gallon still comes from the Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs Fort Worth treats, and Burleson adds nothing but the chloramine residual it is required to maintain. SDWIS lists Burleson's two Fort Worth delivery points at 856 NE Alsbury and 2250 SW Hulen Street, ground tanks of 2 and 3 million gallons at Hulen, 2.0 million at Turkey Peak and 2 million at Industrial, elevated tanks of 0.75 million gallons at Turkey Peak and 1 million at Hidden Creek Estates, and 16,530 connections for 53,381 people. Next on a 2024 rate study: Hulen ground tank and Turkey Peak elevated tank rehabilitations, a Hulen pump station expansion and a new 0.75-million-gallon Mountain Valley elevated tank.
Burleson's 2025 report prints the finished-water numbers on page 10. Total hardness as calcium carbonate ran 108 to 150 ppm across the year, and the report converts that to 6 to 9 grains per gallon. The minerals behind it are listed on the same page: calcium 37.6 to 48.1 ppm, magnesium 4.26 to 8.58 ppm, bicarbonate 99.7 to 120 ppm, total alkalinity 99.7 to 124 ppm and total dissolved solids 182 to 244 ppm, with pH between 7.8 and 8.5. Divided by 17.1, the ends of the hardness range are about 6.3 and 8.8 grains, so a low month is moderately hard on the USGS scale and a high month is hard. The report carries its own classification table and puts 120 to 180 ppm in the hard class, which agrees. Burleson's report also explains why these results appear at all: calcium, sodium and iron are secondary constituents regulated by Texas rather than the EPA, not health concerns, but able to change how water looks and tastes. Chloramine in Burleson's mains averaged 2.6 ppm over the year.
Because Burleson receives a finished product, the range at a tap follows Fort Worth's plant blend and the season rather than anything in Burleson's own pipes, and a home on the 1,000-foot upper plane and one on the 894-foot lower plane should see much the same water on the same day. What does differ from house to house is the heater: at a pH near 8.5, the calcium bicarbonate in this water drops out as scale wherever it is heated, and a tank heater on 150 ppm water collects it faster than one on 108. The cheap mistake is to size for the 6-grain low end and watch the heater scale in a 9-grain month. Size to the top of the range, and let the free water test tell you where your tap sits today. Burleson samples byproducts at four addresses, on Grove Court, SW Murphy Road, Live Oak and Oakbrook, and its 2025 water-loss audit put distribution losses at 9.05 percent against an AWWA median of 9.5.
Sources: City of Burleson, 2025 Water Quality Report · City of Burleson council presentation, Long-term Water Supply Strategy Assessment, May 20, 2024 · First Amendment to Fort Worth City Secretary Contract No. 41091, City of Burleson Wholesale Water Contract · City of Burleson council presentation, water distribution system overview by Birkhoff, Hendricks and Carter · City of Burleson, Industrial Park Blvd. Pump Station Expansion and Alsbury Pump Station Decommissioning · EPA SDWIS Federal Reporting Services · City of Burleson, 2024 Water and Wastewater Rate Study and Financial Forecast
HOW A SOFTENER WORKS
Ion exchange, salt and regeneration.
One tank of resin, one tank of salt, and a valve that runs the cycle.
Resin beads hold sodium ions. Calcium and magnesium swap onto the beads as water passes, and the water leaves at close to zero grains.
When the beads fill up, brine from the salt tank rinses the hardness to the drain and reloads the sodium, metered by the gallons you use.
Calcium, magnesium and a little dissolved iron. Not chlorine, chloramine, PFAS, lead or taste: that is a filter’s job, so see whole house water filtration for Burleson, and a reverse osmosis tap or bottled water delivery for drinking water.
A salt-free water conditioner turns hardness into crystals that stay in the water instead of on heaters and pipes: no salt, no drain, less scale, no relief for soap and skin.
HARDNESS QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
The hard water FAQ for Burleson.
Is Burleson’s water hard?
Yes, on the hard side of moderate. Burleson's 2025 report prints total hardness of 108 to 150 ppm, 6 to 9 grains per gallon, for the Fort Worth water it distributes. The low end is moderately hard on the USGS scale and the high end is hard, enough to scale a water heater and spot glassware. A free water test tells you where your own tap falls.
Is hard water safe to drink?
Yes. Hardness is calcium and magnesium, minerals with no federal drinking-water limit. It is a plumbing, appliance, soap and skin problem, not a health one.
Does a softener make my water salty?
No. The salt goes down the drain at regeneration; the water carries a little sodium in proportion to the hardness removed, which a reverse osmosis tap removes again.
THE SOURCE MATTERS
Where the number comes from.
Each figure is read from the document linked beside it, in its own units and period. A missing result stays missing; a range stays a range.
Hardness result
Burleson water quality report ↗
2025
City of Burleson · PWS TX1260002
Hardness scale
USGS Water Science School: hardness of water ↗
USGS hardness scale, mg/L as CaCO3: soft 0 to 60; moderately hard 61 to 120; hard 121 to 180; very hard over 180.
FREE WATER TEST IN BURLESON
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free water test.
We measure the hardness at your tap, size the softener in grains to that number, and install it ourselves.