Community Water System · PWSID TX1500006

3 G Wsc

Serves 550 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentDripping Springs, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2012: 52 violations. 49 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-22.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
49Missed or late test1 open
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% of active water systems in Texas. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242023 · Missed or late test: 242024 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% missed or late test · 496% notice or report · 3

Across Texas, 60% of violations are missed or late tests and 10% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10 ppb
8 ppb
7.1 ppb
6.8 ppb
5.7 ppb
4.6 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-07-02E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-02E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2024-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2023-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2023-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2023-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2023-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2023-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  19. 2022-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2022-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR) ×2Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-03-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2018-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served550
Service connections275
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDripping Springs
EPA ZIP on file78620-4973

Areas served

  • Llano County

Reading this record

3 G Wsc is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 550 people in Dripping Springs, Texas. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.