Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1013498

Seah Steel USA Mill

Serves 84 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHouston, Texas
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2014: 60 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 42 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
42Missed or late test
17Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Missed or late test: 82015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Missed or late test: 232016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 520202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 170% missed or late test · 4228% notice or report · 17

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.8 ppb
2.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-08-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2017-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2016-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2016-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 34 entries
  1. 2016-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2016-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2016-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2016-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  26. 2015-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  27. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  28. 2015-07-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2015-05-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2015-04-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2015-01-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  33. 2014-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  34. 2014-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served84
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77049-1800

Areas served

  • Harris County

Reading this record

Seah Steel USA Mill is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 84 people in Houston, 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.