Community Water System · PWSID TX0730002

City of Marlin

Serves 5,967 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentMarlin, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2011: 76 violations. 17 over the limit · 19 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-25.

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

17Over the limit
19Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
24Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Treatment lapse: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 52016 · Treatment lapse: 52016 · Treatment lapse: 52016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% over the limit · 1725% treatment lapse · 1921% missed or late test · 1632% notice or report · 24

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2025-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1350 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.3×)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1090 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2024-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2024-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2024-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2024-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0670 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2020-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0700 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2020-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2020-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0780 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.3×)2020-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0740 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2019-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2019-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0710 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0680 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)
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.

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

8.3 ppb
4.9 ppb
4 ppb
4 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-08-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1350 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1090 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2024-08-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-06-03Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  9. 2024-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2023-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0670 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0700 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2020-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  24. 2020-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0780 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0740 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 48 entries
  1. 2019-12-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2017-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-09-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-08-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2016-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2015-12-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  26. 2015-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  27. 2015-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  28. 2015-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2015-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  30. 2015-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  31. 2015-11-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  32. 2015-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  33. 2015-10-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  34. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0680 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  35. 2015-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  36. 2015-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  37. 2015-09-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  38. 2015-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  39. 2015-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  40. 2015-08-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  41. 2015-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  42. 2015-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  43. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  44. 2015-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  45. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  46. 2014-07-06Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2013-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  48. 2011-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served5,967
Service connections3,010
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMarlin
EPA ZIP on file76661-2823

Areas served

  • Falls County

Reading this record

City of Marlin is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,967 people in Marlin, 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.