Community Water System · PWSID TX1610013

Matagorda Wsc

Serves 1,746 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMatagorda, Texas
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On record since 2011: 12 violations. 6 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-01-29.

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

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 66% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 420152020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 625% missed or late test · 325% notice or report · 3

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2014-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.5 ppb
2.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2014-02-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2012-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2012-07-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2011-12-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,746
Service connections582
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMatagorda
EPA ZIP on file77457-0196

Areas served

  • Matagorda County

Reading this record

Matagorda Wsc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,746 people in Matagorda, 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.