Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX0270109

Camp Balcones Springs

Serves 190 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMarble Falls, Texas
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On record since 2013: 22 violations. 6 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-06.

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

6Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 79% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
27% over the limit · 65% treatment lapse · 145% missed or late test · 1023% notice or report · 5

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-12-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-11-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  13. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2018-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  22. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served190
Service connections41
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMarble Falls
EPA ZIP on file78654-3399

Areas served

  • Burnet County

Reading this record

Camp Balcones Springs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 190 people in Marble Falls, 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.