Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1520317

Discount Shop Rentals

Serves 20 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLubbock, 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 2021: 6 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-05-20.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 48% 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

20052010201520202021 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% over the limit · 417% missed or late test · 117% notice or report · 1

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×+Nitrate2025-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2024-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2024-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2024-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 20.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.0×)
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.

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 20.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served20
Service connections18
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLubbock
EPA ZIP on file79424-8438

Areas served

  • Lubbock County

Reading this record

Discount Shop Rentals is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 20 people in Lubbock, 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.