Community Water System · PWSID TX0200008

City of Pearland

Serves 125,828 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentPearland, 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 2003: 14 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-29.

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
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test1 open
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 70% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% missed or late test · 471% notice or report · 10

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
2.2 ppb
2 ppb
1.6 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2020-05-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-02-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2012-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-04-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2011-06-16Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  10. 2011-06-13Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  11. 2008-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2007-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2006-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2003-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served125,828
Service connections45,166
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPearland
EPA ZIP on file77581-5416

Areas served

  • Brazoria County

Reading this record

City of Pearland is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 125,828 people in Pearland, 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.