Community Water System · PWSID TX1700829

East Montgomery County Mud 5

GroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHouston, Texas
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On record since 2015: 10 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2016-01-08.

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
8Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 61% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
80% missed or late test · 820% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2015-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served0
Service connections2,658
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77046-3653

Areas served

  • Montgomery County

Reading this record

East Montgomery County Mud 5 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 0 people in Houston, 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.