Whole House Water Softeners in Valley View

Valley View has been a well town for more than a century. The Water Development Board's 1982 report on the Cretaceous aquifers of north-central Texas records that Gainesville and Valley View had wells producing from the Antlers by 1912 and that by 1940 most of the larger towns in Cooke County and western Grayson County were drawing on the same formation; Cooke County was the second-largest public-supply user of the Antlers in 1976, at 2,803 acre-feet. The city's 2025 report lists two supply wells; the state well index shows one of them, drilled in 1935 to 817 feet, as a public-supply well in the Antlers Sand, with the 1912 well, 400 feet deep, now unused. The 2007 state groundwater study for the region lists Valley View's supply as 78 acre-feet a year from the Trinity aquifer and records that a regional plan at the time proposed treated Moss Lake water from Gainesville for Valley View and its neighbors; the city's 2025 report still shows groundwater only.

The Antlers gives two kinds of water depending on where a well sits. The board's 1982 report describes water from the outcrop as mostly hard to very hard with high iron, and water from downdip locations as generally soft; about a third of its Antlers analyses exceeded 60 mg/L of hardness, with the hardest, over 300 mg/L, in Montague and northern Wise counties. The state's sample from Valley View's 817-foot well in October 2003 shows which kind the city has: 178 mg/L of sodium, 364 mg/L of total alkalinity, 444 mg/L of total dissolved solids, chloride of only 4.17 mg/L, and calcium and magnesium at 0.86 and 0.31 mg/L. An August 1999 sample read 178 sodium, 342 alkalinity and 433 dissolved solids, so the water has held steady. Sodium bicarbonate water with almost no calcium is the downdip profile the report describes. The city's own report prints no hardness result, and we will not supply one from a 2003 well sample, so this page carries no figure for Valley View.

At a Valley View tap, the dissolved minerals arrive mostly as sodium and bicarbonate, which do not form the chalky scale lake-water towns see. With two wells in the same sand feeding one small system, the water should be much the same from one street to the next, and the state's repeated samples suggest it changes little from year to year. What a homeowner here should weigh is sodium: a softener adds more of it in exchange for whatever calcium and magnesium are present, and on this water that trade may buy very little. The free water test gives the actual hardness at your tap, and we size to that number or tell you plainly if it does not call for a softener.

Sources: City of Valley View 2025 Consumer Confidence Report · Texas Water Development Board, Groundwater Database well index · Texas Water Development Board, Groundwater Database download · TWDB Report 269, Occurrence, Availability · TCEQ, Priority Groundwater Management Area report for north-central Texas · EPA Envirofacts SDWIS, water system record record for TX0490049 City of Valley View · EPA Envirofacts SDWIS, water system facility records records for TX0490049 City of Valley View