Community Water System · PWSID TX2270186

Highway 71 Storage & MHP

Serves 57 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateThe Hills, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2002: 28 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 4 missed or late tests · 23 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
4Missed or late test2 open
23Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 83% 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

2002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 320052006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Missed or late test: 120102012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 42014 · Notice or report: 42014 · Notice or report: 42014 · Notice or report: 42015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 2201520202023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 114% missed or late test · 482% notice or report · 23

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.48 ppb
0.42 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2014-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2012-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  3. 2010-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2015-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2015-05-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 2014-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2014-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2014-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2012-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2012-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  14. 2010-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  15. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2009-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2006-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2006-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2006-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2005-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2005-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2004-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2003-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served57
Service connections19
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityThe Hills
EPA ZIP on file78738-1513

Areas served

  • Travis County

Reading this record

Highway 71 Storage & MHP is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 57 people in The Hills, 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.