Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1650029

Midessa Oil Patch RV Park

Serves 114 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBaytown, Texas
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2012: 20 violations. 15 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-04-01.

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

15Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 77% 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: 12012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% over the limit · 1510% missed or late test · 215% 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×+Nitrate2019-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2018-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2018-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 19.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.9×)2018-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2018-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2017-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2017-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2017-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2017-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2016-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2016-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 19.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2015-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2012-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2012-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served114
Service connections90
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBaytown
EPA ZIP on file77521-2418

Areas served

  • Midland County

Reading this record

Midessa Oil Patch RV Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 114 people in Baytown, 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.