Whole House Water Softeners in The Homesteads

The Homesteads is served by Metroplex Homesteads Water Supply, a privately owned system in Johnson County that the federal drinking-water records list as groundwater, serving 3,537 people through 1,179 connections. It is a small system built around its wells. The state's facility list shows active wells at three sites, on Gina Drive, on Luisa Drive and two at the plant on County Road 615, each pumping into its own small plant with hydropneumatic tanks of a few thousand gallons and ground tanks of 22,000 to 84,000 gallons, and six more wells carried as plugged or inactive. There is one connection to someone else's water, marked as surface water from Johnson County Special Utility District, and it is listed as an emergency source, not a regular one. Johnson County sits inside the Prairielands Groundwater Conservation District, whose plan describes the water-bearing units here: the Trinity Group, with the Paluxy Formation, up to 400 feet of sand interbedded with clay, at the top, the Glen Rose limestone beneath it, and the Twin Mountains sands at the base, the most productive Trinity unit in this part of Texas, and the Woodbine above them all, dipping eastward to as much as 2,500 feet down. Which of those the corporation's wells are screened in is not stated in the public record.

We found no water quality report for the system, so there is no hardness figure and no sodium, alkalinity or dissolved-solids result to reason from, and we will not infer one. What the geology allows us to say is this. In the Texas Water Development Board's description, Trinity water is fresh and very hard in the outcrop belt, and it picks up dissolved solids with depth, from under 1,000 milligrams per liter to as much as 1,000 to 5,000, along with more sulfate and chloride; the Prairielands plan adds that Twin Mountains water is generally not as good as Paluxy water. Depth, then, is the hinge. A shallow well in the outcrop and a deep well into the same aquifer can give water at opposite ends of the hardness scale. For a sense of what deep Trinity water looks like, the nearest published well chemistry is Kennedale's, in Tarrant County: its four wells in the Twin Mountains, Travis Peak and Paluxy printed calcium of 1.49 to 19.1 ppm against total dissolved solids of 414 to 950 ppm and alkalinity of 202 to 438, little calcium and much else in solution. That is Kennedale's water, not The Homesteads'.

At a Homesteads tap the practical point is that this is a system of separate small plants, each with its own well and its own tanks, so the water on Gina Drive and the water on County Road 615 need not be the same, and a change in which well is running can change what comes out of a faucet without any notice. There is no lake water in the mix except in an emergency, when Johnson County SUD's surface water would be a different water altogether. Calcium and magnesium, where present, show up as spotting and scale; they are minerals, not a contaminant. With no report and no supplier figure, the free water test is the only reading there is for this community, and we size a softener to that number and nothing else.

Sources: EPA SDWIS — water system record, Metroplex Homesteads Water Supply TX1260074 · EPA SDWIS — water system facilities (wells, intakes, plants, purchased-water connections) · Geoconnex reference record · Prairielands Groundwater Conservation District — 2019 Management Plan · Texas Water Development Board — Trinity Aquifer · Texas Water Development Board Report 380, Aquifers of Texas — Trinity Aquifer · City of Kennedale — 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report