Community Water System · PWSID TX1870166

Lake Livingston Pineshadows East

Serves 5,675 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateLivingston, Texas
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On record since 2017: 40 violations. 16 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 12 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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

16Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% 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

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 165% treatment lapse · 230% missed or late test · 1225% notice or report · 10

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UArsenicTrihalomethanes (TTHM)2024-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 16.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2024-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 17.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2024-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 17.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2023-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 18.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2023-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 17.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2023-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 18.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.2×)2023-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 19.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.3×)2022-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 16.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2021-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 17.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 16.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.1×)2020-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7.8 ppb
6.9 ppb
4.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-04-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2023-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 19.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  16. 2021-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  17. 2021-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2020-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2019-06-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2019-05-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2019-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-03-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-09-06Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2017-05-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-03-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-02-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01ChloriteMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served5,675
Service connections2,260
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLivingston
EPA ZIP on file77351-0020

Areas served

  • Polk County

Reading this record

Lake Livingston Pineshadows East is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,675 people in Livingston, 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.