Whole House Water Softeners in Westworth Village

Westworth Village's 2025 report is, for the most part, Fort Worth's. Its pages carry the footer Fort Worth Water's 2025 water quality data for wholesale customers, and alongside the city's own sampling it reprints Fort Worth's full analysis and a page of UCMR5 results from the North Holly Water Treatment Plant. The Holly plants are the oldest in Fort Worth's system: the Holly filtration plant began operating on January 31, 1912, first on Clear Fork river water, and a 6.5-mile pipeline from Lake Worth reached it in May 1916. Today North Holly and South Holly are each rated at 80 million gallons a day, and Fort Worth's planning documents show the Tarrant Regional Water District can send Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers water through Lake Benbrook to the Holly plants as well as to Rolling Hills and Westside, while the Clear Fork pump station that serves them is rated at 90 million gallons a day. Westworth Village has no plant or well of its own; its water department samples what arrives, and its report says the department works with Fort Worth Water when taste or odor shifts. There is almost nothing between a Fort Worth main and a Westworth Village tap. The federal SDWIS facility inventory for the city shows no storage tank, no pump station and no well, only the distribution system, one consecutive connection to Fort Worth and sampling stations at three purchase meters: Meter 1 at 400 Burton Hill Road, Meter 2 at 5860 Holloway Street and Meter 3 at 1100 Green Oaks Road. It counts 1,014 service connections for 2,597 people. Whatever Fort Worth pushes through those meters is what comes out of the faucet, at Fort Worth's pressure and with Fort Worth's chemistry, the city adding nothing but the testing.

The figures on page 7 are Fort Worth's 2025 finished-water results, printed under secondary constituents, which the report describes as matters of appearance and taste rather than health. Total hardness as calcium carbonate: 108 to 150 ppm. Total hardness in grains: 6 to 9 per gallon. Calcium 37.6 to 48.1 ppm, magnesium 3.45 to 7.35 ppm, bicarbonate 99.7 to 120 ppm, total alkalinity 99.7 to 124 ppm, total dissolved solids 182 to 244 ppm, conductivity 312 to 431 micromhos per centimeter, pH 7.8 to 8.5. At 17.1 ppm to the grain, 108 is about 6.3 grains and 150 about 8.8: moderately hard at the bottom of the year, hard at the top, on the USGS scale. The same page notes that Fort Worth achieves corrosion control by adjusting pH to satisfy the Lead and Copper Rule, which is also why the water tends toward the alkaline end where scale forms readily in a heater. The city's own tap samples from 2023, on page 5, stayed under both action levels: copper at a 90th percentile of 0.3834 ppm against 1.3, lead 1.9 ppb against 15. The city's service line inventory can be read at City Hall's Public Works office. Sulfate of 17.3 to 40.9 ppm and chloride of 16.3 to 31.8 ppm round out a water that is mineral-bearing but not salty.

Because the supply is finished water from a single wholesaler, the hardness in a Westworth Village home is set by the plant blend and the season, not by the block. The city reports a distribution water loss of only 2.75 percent, so the water is not sitting long in its mains, and the chloramine residual, 2.36 to 3.75 mg/L, is Fort Worth's disinfectant carried through. Its 2025 average was 2.99 mg/L, and the disinfection by-products in the city's mains stayed low: haloacetic acids at a highest yearly average of 6 ppb, total trihalomethanes at 7, against limits of 60 and 80. For a softener, the 150 ppm high end is the design number, with a metered valve to ease off in the 108 ppm months. The free water test gives you today's reading at your own tap, and that is the figure we size to.

Sources: City of Westworth Village, 2025 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report · City of Fort Worth, Water Department History page · City of Fort Worth, Water and Wastewater Impact Fee Update · EPA SDWIS Federal Reporting Services