Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water 2024 Water Quality Report (2024 data, posted as the current official report). Surface water from area lakes. Total hardness 76.5–175 ppm / 5–10 grains. Chloramines 3.4 ppm (range 0.63–4.7). No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- Hardness76.5–175 ppm / 5–10 gpg
- Chloramines3.4 ppm (range 0.63–4.7)
Best match for Fort Worth
Salt-based water softener
No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.
A salt-based softener is the thing that actually removes hardness. Size it from your grains and how much water you use, not bathroom count. It needs a drain.
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Other options that still fit
Salt-free conditioner
A salt-free conditioner changes how scale sticks. It does not soften. Soap and spots stay closer to untreated. No brine line.
Whole-house catalytic carbon for chloramine
Catalytic carbon with a chloramine claim (NSF/ANSI 42 for chloramine). Regular chlorine carbon is the wrong box.
Under-sink reverse osmosis
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
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Test the tap first
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
On the report
- Water utility
- Fort Worth Water
- Hardness
- Total hardness as CaCO3 76.5 to 175 ppm. Total hardness in grains 5 to 10 grains/gallon. Secondary-constituent table on the official 2024 Water Quality Report page. — Fort Worth Water 2024 Water Quality Report
- Disinfectant
- Chloramines 3.4 ppm (range 0.63 to 4.7), MRDL 4, year 2024. Disinfectants table. — Fort Worth Water 2024 Water Quality Report
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched Fort Worth Water and City of Fort Worth sewer pages and codes for a residential self-regenerating softener or brine-drain ban like LACSD Measure S. None turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- PFASEPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule required community systems this size to test 29 PFAS and lithium in 2023–2025. Open the UCMR 5 Data Finder for this PWS. This file does not invent a detection.Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Fort Worth drinking water is 100% surface water from area lakes, treated and delivered by Fort Worth Water. No City of Fort Worth residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.
The official 2024 Water Quality Report page prints total hardness as CaCO3 76.5 to 175 ppm, also 5 to 10 grains/gallon. We do not invent a single-plant average beyond the printed range.
Chloramines 3.4 ppm (range 0.63–4.7), MRDL 4. Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- 2024 Water Quality Report — Fort Worth Water. Accessed 2026-09-09.
Updated September 9, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.