Whole House Water Softeners in Travis Ranch

Travis Ranch's water comes from a water supply corporation that owns no treatment plant and no lake. Forney Lake Water Supply Corporation's 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report describes its supply as purchased surface water and lists two connections: a regular interconnect with the North Texas Municipal Water District, system TX0430044, with the location given as the Wylie Water Plant, and an emergency interconnect with the City of Heath. Every result in the corporation's tables, from arsenic to fluoride to trihalomethanes, is labeled as a North Texas MWD Wylie WTP sample, because the corporation tests what it buys. The district lists Forney Lake among its 34 customer cities and utilities, and on the service area page of its own 2025 report it names Forney Lake WSC among the systems that can also draw from its Tawakoni Water Treatment Plant, the plant on Lake Tawakoni that began operating in 2011. The corporation keeps its office in Rockwall, on State Highway 205.

What the district says about that water is consistent across both plants. Its treated water is moderately hard, it writes, mainly because of minerals in Lavon Lake such as calcium bicarbonate and magnesium carbonate, and it tells homeowners that dividing a report's total hardness in mg/L by 17.12 gives grains per gallon. The district's 2025 report prints the figures for each of its plants: the district's Wylie plants, the corporation's listed source, ran 96.0 to 200 ppm total hardness as calcium carbonate in 2025, with calcium 31.2 to 61.3 ppm and magnesium 6.27 to 9.44 ppm, and the district's Tawakoni plant ran 60.0 to 249 ppm on calcium of 24.6 to 47.3 ppm and magnesium of 2.52 ppm. Those are the district's numbers for the water leaving its plants, not a measurement at Travis Ranch. In grains the district's plant figures span roughly 3.5 to 14.5, from the soft end of the USGS scale to well into very hard.

Forney Lake's own report prints no hardness table at all, no secondary constituents section of any kind, so there is no figure for Travis Ranch and we do not print one. What a homeowner in the community can count on is that the water is reservoir water from one or both of two district plants, that it carries the calcium and magnesium those lakes dissolve from the land they drain, and that the blend reaching a given street can differ by season and by which interconnect is flowing. The emergency link to Heath, if it were ever opened, would bring in Wylie water bought through Rockwall, the same district supply by another route. A softener here is sized to what the tap actually shows, and a free water test is the way to that number, in ppm and grains, for your own house in Travis Ranch.

Sources: Forney Lake WSC: 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report · Forney Lake Water Supply: home page · North Texas Municipal Water District: 2025 Water Quality Report · North Texas Municipal Water District: Our Water System · North Texas Municipal Water District: History · North Texas Municipal Water District: Water Quality · City of Heath: 2025 Consumer Confidence Report