Whole House Water Softeners in Josephine

The North Texas Municipal Water District lists the City of Josephine among the 34 customer cities and utilities it supplies directly, and the city's 2024 water quality report says the same in its own words: Josephine purchases water from North Texas MWD Wylie WTP, which provides purchased surface water. The district knows the town for another reason. In a presentation to the Josephine City Council on February 12, 2024, it explained that it bought 410 acres north of the city in 2011 as a site for a monofill, a landfill for a single by-product, in this case the residuals of treating Lavon Lake water at the Wylie plant. Those residuals are the sediment the Wylie plant settles out of lake water during treatment; today it collects in lagoons at the plant, is dried, and is trucked off for land application as an iron-rich soil enhancer. The district applied for the monofill permit in May 2021 and expects design to begin in 2028. The same slides rate the four Wylie plants at 840 million gallons a day together and the district's treatment capacity at 946.

What that treatment removes is what settles. What it leaves is dissolved, and the district's water quality page is direct about it: the treated water is considered moderately hard, Lavon Lake's minerals being the reason, calcium bicarbonate at the head of its list and magnesium carbonate behind it, and homeowners can convert any total hardness result from mg/L to grains per gallon by dividing by 17.12. Josephine's own report gives nothing to divide. Its 2024 Consumer Confidence Report is the state's template with the blanks left in; it carries the city's lead and copper, disinfection by-product and nitrate results, but the secondary constituents page that would hold hardness, sodium, alkalinity and dissolved solids is simply absent, so no Josephine figure could be read from it. We show no hardness figure for the city.

The neighbors supply the scale, and the numbers are theirs, not Josephine's: Garland's 2025 report and Bear Creek Special Utility District's, both fed by the Wylie plant, show 2025 total hardness between 96.0 and 200 ppm, which converts to about 5.6 and 11.7 grains per gallon, the moderately hard and very hard classes. Josephine draws on that plant too, through a distribution system the city runs itself, so a household here can expect the dried spots on glassware and the lime in a water heater that the district describes, at a strength no document has yet put a number to for the city. A free water test at a Josephine faucet is the only way to get that number, in ppm and in grains, and the softener is then sized to the top of what the test shows across the year.

Sources: City of Josephine - 2024 Consumer Confidence Report · North Texas Municipal Water District - City of Josephine Council Presentation, February 12, 2024 · North Texas Municipal Water District - Our Water System · North Texas Municipal Water District - Water Quality · City of Garland - 2025 Water Quality Report · Bear Creek Special Utility District - 2025 Consumer Confidence Report