Community Water System · PWSID TX0790315

Fort Bend County Mud 46

Serves 2,247 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentHouston, Texas
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On record since 2014: 17 violations. 17 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
17Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 1201520202023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162023 · Missed or late test: 162025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 17

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

0.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,247
Service connections749
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77077-2874

Areas served

  • Fort Bend County

Reading this record

Fort Bend County Mud 46 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,247 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.