Whole House Water Softeners in Crowley

Crowley's 2025 water quality report opens with a plain statement: in 2025 the city bought 100 percent of what it delivered, already treated, from Fort Worth. Crowley has no plant and no wells, so the report reprints Fort Worth's 2025 drinking water analysis as Crowley's own, from turbidity of 0.29 NTU to fluoride of 0.21 to 0.74 ppm and bromate of up to 13.7 parts per billion, and then adds the handful of results sampled inside Crowley's mains. The supply comes through Fort Worth's Southside II system, which Crowley shares with its neighbors: the Burleson wholesale contract amendment notes that Crowley, Burleson and the Bethesda Water Supply Corporation each hold separate contracts with Fort Worth but may share connection points and other facilities. Crowley's report also records that the Tarrant Regional Water District, not Crowley, received the state's source-water assessment, which is the arrangement for every city that buys finished water rather than raw, and it points readers to Fort Worth's source-water contact rather than its own. Federal facility records fill in the hardware behind that purchase. The EPA's SDWIS inventory for Crowley names two elevated tanks of 0.500 million gallons, one on Main and one on Crowley Road, a 0.500-million-gallon ground tank at Pump Station 6 on East Main and a 0.350-million-gallon ground tank at the west-side Pump Station 7, with service pumps of 2,000 and 1,200 gallons a minute at Station 6 and 1,000 at Station 7. The same inventory carries four groundwater wells, two at 508 Swiss and two at 1000 West Main Street, each flagged as an emergency source, and counts 7,742 service connections for 19,935 people.

The hardness figures sit on page 3 of Crowley's report under secondary constituents, the items the report says relate to aesthetics rather than health and matter to industry. Total hardness as calcium carbonate: 108 to 150 ppm, printed alongside 6 to 9 grains per gallon. The site's data carries the same range in decimals, 108.0 to 150.0. Around it the report lists calcium 37.6 to 48.1 ppm, magnesium 3.45 to 7.35 ppm, bicarbonate 99.7 to 120 ppm, total alkalinity 99.7 to 124 ppm, total dissolved solids 182 to 244 ppm, conductivity 312 to 431 micromhos per centimeter and pH 7.8 to 8.5. Worked through at 17.1 ppm per grain, 108 is about 6.3 grains and 150 about 8.8. On the USGS scale, 108 is moderately hard and 150 is hard. Calcium does most of the work here; the magnesium share is small, which is typical of water that has run over the limestone country the Trinity reservoirs drain. The sodium figure, 19.5 to 27.9 ppm, is low, another mark of surface water rather than deep well water. The rest of page 3 is ordinary for a Fort Worth customer: nitrate peaked at 0.776 ppm, haloacetic acids at a running average of 11 parts per billion and trihalomethanes at 12. The money side is in the city's 2025-26 operating budget, which carries the Water and Sewer Fund at $8,871,750 of revenue, $8,825,250 of it charges for services, against $8,840,993 of spending, with no separate line for what Crowley pays Fort Worth. Crowley's own rules touch demand rather than chemistry: Ordinance 05-2019-369 bars watering on Mondays and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

What varies at a Crowley tap is the month, not the street. Fort Worth draws on seven surface sources and five plants, and the blend it sends south shifts with lake levels and demand, so the 108 and the 150 are the quiet and the busy ends of one year rather than two neighborhoods. Crowley's own additions are chloramine, averaging 2.56 ppm, and nothing that changes hardness. Scale is the practical consequence: at a pH that can reach 8.5, dissolved calcium bicarbonate comes out of solution on heating elements and shower glass. For a softener, plan on the 150, and let the free water test pin the day's figure at your own kitchen sink.

Sources: City of Crowley, 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report · First Amendment to Fort Worth City Secretary Contract No. 41091 · City of Fort Worth, Water Quality Reports page · EPA SDWIS Federal Reporting Services · City of Crowley, Fiscal Year 2025-26 Operating Budget, Exhibit A