Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1013625

Gulf Bank Convenience Store

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHouston, Texas
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2022: 1 violation. 1 treatment lapse. Most recent began 2022-03-10.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 14% 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

20052010201520202022 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% treatment lapse · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-03-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-03-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

System details

Population served100
Service connections6
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77037-2343

Areas served

  • Harris County

Reading this record

Gulf Bank Convenience Store is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 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.