Greenwood, Gardendale, Stanton, Seminole, Andrews, and a great deal of the country south and west of Dallas — a lot of homes out there are on their own well. Which means no utility, no annual report, and nobody treating the water before it reaches your kitchen.
What you notice first
Hardness. West Texas groundwater is mineral-heavy by nature. Scale on the kettle, film on the shower door, soap that will not rinse.
Iron. Orange or brown staining on fixtures and in the laundry, and a metallic taste. Extremely common out here.
A rotten-egg smell. That is hydrogen sulfide, and it is worth saying twice: a water softener does nothing to it. It is a dissolved gas and it passes straight through a softening resin bed. It has to be oxidized out first. If somebody quotes you a softener for a smell problem, get a second opinion.
The order matters more than the equipment
This is where most well systems go wrong, and it is expensive to get wrong.
Oxidize and filter the iron and sulfur first. Then soften. A softening resin bed fouled with iron is a costly thing to replace, and putting the softener first is the fastest way to ruin one. If bacteria have ever shown up in a test, UV goes at the end.
Nobody is testing it for you
On a public supply the utility tests constantly and publishes the results. On a private well, whatever is in it has been in it for as long as you have been drinking it, and the only way to know is to look.
We test at your own tap, free, and you watch the result. Then we build what the numbers call for, in the right order.