Community Water System · PWSID TX1550009

City of West

Serves 2,597 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWest, Texas

Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 2015: 75 violations. 1 over the limit · 61 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

1Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

61Missed or late test3 open

13Notice or report1 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

One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

1% over the limit · 181% missed or late test · 6117% notice or report · 13

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

How far over the limit

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (4)

2024-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
2021-04-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
2021-04-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
2020-06-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen

Every violation on record

2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2024-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2022-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-05-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2021-09-18Public Notice ×5PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-04-13Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
2021-04-13Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2021-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2020-06-30Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
2020-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

Show the other 45 entries

2020-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01AldicarbMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Aldicarb sulfoneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01Aldicarb sulfoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-04-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	2,597
Service connections	1,260
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	West
EPA ZIP on file	76691-0097

Areas served

Mclennan County

Reading this record

City of West is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,597 people in West, 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.