Circle C/Meridian Water - Hard or Soft (Houston, Dallas: appliances, water heater) - City-Data Forum

llkltk · 10-05-2007, 08:24 PM

Anyone know if the water is hard or soft in these areas. I know that Cedar Park has hard water.

HappyTexan · 10-05-2007, 09:55 PM

I'd say figure the water is "hard" water all over..just some places are not as hard as others..really depends on the water source. I get my water from Manville (private water company in Travis county) and it's pretty hard.

Trainwreck20 · 10-05-2007, 10:01 PM

If you are tied into the city of Austin water system, your water will be 'soft', as it is taken from the area lakes and is not pumped from underground. Many of the smaller communities and towns get their water from wells, which will be hard.

texastrigirl · 01-30-2009, 01:19 AM

I have lived in both Pflugerville and Circle C. We needed a water softener in Pflug and not in CCR.

And CCR is not that far out!! 12 miles from downtown Austin. You can zip downtown pretty fast, esp. in no traffic as it's a straight shot on Mopac.

mimimomx3 · 01-30-2009, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by texastrigirl

I have lived in both Pflugerville and Circle C. We needed a water softener in Pflug and not in CCR.

And CCR is not that far out!! 12 miles from downtown Austin. You can zip downtown pretty fast, esp. in no traffic as it's a straight shot on Mopac.

"Far out" is a matter of opinion. It may be 12 miles on a map from downtown Austin, but there are very few times when there is 'no traffic' and you can 'straight shot' down mopac. I live 4 exits north from 5th street and it can take me 45 minutes sometimes to get home.

texastrigirl · 01-30-2009, 10:38 AM

And if anyone from south encounters horrible traffic, it's right around Barton Springs to the north part of downtown. That's why southwest is nice...you can shoot over on Slaughter or Wm Cannon to South 1st or 290 to Lamar, etc. Lots of ways into downtown. And I will qualify, you have to leave before 7:15am when UT is in session. Just my experience mimimomx3...I lived in Austin for 10 years.

atxcio · 01-30-2009, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by mimimomx3

"Far out" is a matter of opinion. It may be 12 miles on a map from downtown Austin, but there are very few times when there is 'no traffic' and you can 'straight shot' down mopac. I live 4 exits north from 5th street and it can take me 45 minutes sometimes to get home.

For someone coming from Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, etc... 12 miles is not far out. And from the google directions, Circle C is only about 9-10 miles away. The longest distance I could find was from the golf course which was 11.6. Traffic issues are another story, but as you point out if traffic is bad enough it can take 45 minutes to go 4 exits on Mopac. That doesn't make 4 exits away "far out" to me.

Far out, to me, is --
33 miles from The Woodlands to Houston's CBD
28.6 miles from Frisco to Dallas' CBD

I've never lived in Circle C, nor really know much about it.. but I have driven there from central, and it seems pretty close. The distance to downtown is significantly less than any of the suburbs such as Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville...

Gary Slusser · 02-01-2009, 01:02 PM

I have sold many water softeners in Austin and the surrounding areas that have been mentioned. So find your water company's Water Quality Report on their web site (or they mail it annually because of federal law) and see what the maximum hardness is in their entire system, they mix and match water constantly, and if you find more than 3-4 gpg (grains per gallon; divide their mg/l by 17.1 to convert to gpg), then you need a water softener to protect water heaters, clothes and other fabrics that launder, skin and hair problems, water using appliances and all fixtures and surfaces water is in contact with.

Some water companies will tell you that as long as there is no more than 150 mg/l of hardness in their water, it is "soft", but that is not true. Soft water has 0 gpg of hardness in it; that's <17.1 mg/l or ppm.

Naturally soft water will usually has <3-4 gpg, a low TDS of =< 100 mg/l and an acidic pH of less than 6.0. Naturally soft water is rare and usually limited to small geographic areas, the rest of the US has hard water and many places seriously hard water with 15+ gpg of hardness; Texas has a lot of it and that includes 'city' water systems regardless if surface water source or well water.

cleanwaterlady · 02-09-2009, 09:39 AM

100% of the municipally supplied tap water in Central Texas has hardness ranging from a low of around 6 grains per gallon (103 mg/L) to way over 30 grains per gallon (>500 mg/L). Austin's water is "soft" compared to Pflugerville, but still has hardness that will manifest itself over time. There is one small portion of Bastrop County supplied by Aqua WSC where the hardness is 1 - 3 GPG...those are some really lucky people.