Community Water System · PWSID TX1012987

City of Hilshire Village

Serves 945 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentHouston, 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 2007: 12 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-05-01.

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 lapse
2Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 66% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 317% missed or late test · 258% notice or report · 7

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

16.4 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.1 ppb
3.3 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2017-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2017-04-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-03-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-04-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2016-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-03-31Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  10. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2007-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served945
Service connections315
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77055-6737

Areas served

  • Harris County

Reading this record

City of Hilshire Village is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 945 people in Houston, 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.