Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX0840193

Colonel Museum Inc

Serves 1,500 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateGalveston, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2008: 12 violations. 5 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-03.

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
5Missed or late test
7Notice or report5 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

20052008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22010201520202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
42% missed or late test · 558% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-07-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2022-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2022-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2022-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2022-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2008-07-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2008-07-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,500
Service connections9
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGalveston
EPA ZIP on file77554-8928

Areas served

  • Galveston County

Reading this record

Colonel Museum Inc is a transient non-community that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,500 people in Galveston, 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.