Community Water System · PWSID TX0460202

Elm Ridge Water

Serves 63 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCanyon Lake, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 26 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 2003: 51 violations. 25 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-07-01.

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
25Missed or late test10 open
26Notice or report16 open

More violations on record than 91% 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: 12004 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52016 · Notice or report: 52017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
49% missed or late test · 2551% notice or report · 26

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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

1.6 ppb

Open now (26)

  1. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2020-03-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2020-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2019-11-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  8. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  9. 2019-06-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2019-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  12. 2018-07-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  14. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  15. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  16. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  17. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  18. 2017-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2017-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  20. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  21. 2016-11-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  22. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  23. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  24. 2016-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  25. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  26. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2020-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-03-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2020-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-11-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  11. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  12. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-06-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  17. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-07-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  20. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  21. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  23. 2018-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  25. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2017-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2017-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2016-11-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  6. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-02-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2015-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  12. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2015-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2014-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  24. 2004-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served63
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCanyon Lake
EPA ZIP on file78133-0005

Areas served

  • Comal County

Reading this record

Elm Ridge Water is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 63 people in Canyon Lake, 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.