Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1012573

Harris County Sheriffs Substation

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHouston, Texas
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2012: 68 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 63 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
1Treatment lapse
63Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362022 · Missed or late test: 362024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 193% missed or late test · 636% notice or report · 4

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2022-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 43 entries
  1. 2022-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-01-01TdsMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01SulfateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2022-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-01-01ZincMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2022-01-01SilverMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2022-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2022-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2022-01-01IronMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2022-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2022-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2022-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  32. 2022-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2022-01-01AluminumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  34. 2022-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  35. 2022-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  36. 2018-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  37. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  38. 2016-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  39. 2014-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  40. 2013-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  41. 2013-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  42. 2013-05-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  43. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77002-1868

Areas served

  • Harris County

Reading this record

Harris County Sheriffs Substation is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 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.