Community Water System · PWSID TX0360065

Olsen Estates Water System

Serves 174 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMont Belvieu, Texas
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On record since 2003: 27 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-08-20.

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
2Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
19Notice or report

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

2003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 22021 · Treatment lapse: 22021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 222% missed or late test · 670% notice or report · 19

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

3.3 ppb
1.5 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.6 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-08-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-03-31Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-10-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2017-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2015-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2015-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2011-07-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2007-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2007-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2006-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2006-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2004-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2004-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2004-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2003-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served174
Service connections58
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMont Belvieu
EPA ZIP on file77580-1553

Areas served

  • Chambers County

Reading this record

Olsen Estates Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 174 people in Mont Belvieu, 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.