Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1950024

Orla South Lodge

Serves 210 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivateThe Woodlands, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2019: 13 violations. 10 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-03-21.

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
0Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 68% 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

2005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
77% missed or late test · 1023% notice or report · 3

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

0.11 ppb
0.08 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2021-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served210
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityThe Woodlands
EPA ZIP on file77381-1211

Areas served

  • Reeves County

Reading this record

Orla South Lodge is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 210 people in The Woodlands, 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.