Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX0790506

Bens Chuck Wagon

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWallis, Texas
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2010: 56 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 26 missed or late tests · 27 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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
3Treatment lapse1 open
26Missed or late test
27Notice or report

More violations on record than 92% 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

20052010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 346% missed or late test · 2648% notice or report · 27

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-01-26Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-26Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  6. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-09-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-11-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-10-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2021-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2021-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2020-02-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 30 entries
  1. 2019-12-22Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  2. 2019-11-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2018-08-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2017-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2016-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2016-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2013-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2011-12-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2011-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  28. 2010-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2010-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2010-01-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWallis
EPA ZIP on file77485-8607

Areas served

  • Fort Bend County

Reading this record

Bens Chuck Wagon is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Wallis, 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.