Whole House Water Softeners in Hurst

Hurst is a Fort Worth customer that keeps its own storage and its own wells close at hand. The city's Water Division page lists 205 miles of water lines, 1,236 fire hydrants, 4,633 valves, 12,100 meters and 16,461 connections, served from 10 ground storage tanks holding 8.3 million gallons and 3 elevated tanks holding 2.75 million gallons, with three of the city's wells in full seasonal operation and the rest held for emergencies. The 2023 budget fills in the proportions: of 1.98 billion gallons used in fiscal 2021 to 2022, about 1 million gallons came from the wells, with the rest bought from Fort Worth, and six high service pump stations able to move 33.048 million gallons a day distribute it against a Fort Worth estimate of an 8.20 million gallon maximum day. The 2017 Fort Worth service area study credits Fort Worth with 95 percent of Hurst, the wells accounting for the remainder. The state continues to rate the system Superior. The federal facility inventory shows how the wells and tanks pair up: each of the six pump stations, at 116 and 1233 Hurstview Drive, 108 West Pipeline Road, 836 Cheryl Lane, 2400 Norwood Drive and 436 Melbourne Road, has ground storage and a well of its own, with Norwood the largest at 2.000, 1.500 and 0.562 million gallon tanks and pumps of 4,000, 3,000, 1,500 and 1,200 gallons a minute. Elevated tanks of 1.0 million gallons stand at North Precinct and Valentine and 0.750 million at Precinct Line. The same inventory lists emergency interconnects with Colleyville and with the authority's Tarrant County project. In fiscal 2020 the wells ran nine days and supplied 10 million of 1.82 billion gallons.

Hurst's water quality report reprints Fort Worth's results, so the figures here are the supplier's, read from Fort Worth's own 2025 report. Fort Worth's secondary constituents table gives total hardness as calcium carbonate of 108 to 150 ppm, or, in grains, 6 to 9, and that range is the figure on Hurst's page. Behind it, in ppm, calcium runs 37.6 to 48.1 and magnesium only 3.45 to 7.35; bicarbonate 99.7 to 120 and total alkalinity 99.7 to 124; then dissolved solids 182 to 244 and sodium 19.5 to 27.9, with pH 7.8 to 8.5. On the USGS scale 108 is moderately hard and 150 is hard. Hurst adds no treatment of its own, so nothing between the wholesale meter and the tap changes those numbers. The wells are a different water, groundwater rather than lake water, but their contribution in a normal year is a small share of what the city uses, and we found no published hardness result for them.

In most months a Hurst tap carries Fort Worth lake water and nothing else, bought at the wholesale meters, held in the city's ten ground tanks and three elevated tanks and lifted by six pump stations, so the hardness at the kitchen sink follows Fort Worth's blend and season across the 108 to 150 range rather than anything Hurst does to the water. In peak summer the three seasonal wells add groundwater to the mains, and the blend near a running well can differ from the published range in a direction the city does not print. That is the one Hurst-specific reason to measure rather than assume. Size a softener to the 150 ppm end, the 8.8 grain mark, and the free water test puts a number on your own kitchen tap.

Sources: City of Hurst: Water Division page · City of Hurst, FY2022-23 Annual Budget · City of Fort Worth, 2025 Water Quality Report · City of Fort Worth, Water Impact Fee Update · USGS Water Science School: Hardness of Water · EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts REST, water system facility records records for PWS TX2200054 · City of Hurst, FY2021 Budget