Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1210066

Cartwright Springs

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSugar Land, Texas
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On record since 2015: 17 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 6 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-12-30.

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2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 26% treatment lapse · 135% missed or late test · 647% notice or report · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-12-30E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  5. 2016-12-09Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-06-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2016-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2015-12-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySugar Land
EPA ZIP on file77487-3029

Areas served

  • Jasper County

Reading this record

Cartwright Springs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Sugar Land, 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.