Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX0200598

Shintech Freeport Plant

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateFreeport, Texas
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On record since 2003: 20 violations. 10 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2016-09-29.

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

10Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
5Notice 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Treatment lapse: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 1010% treatment lapse · 215% missed or late test · 325% notice or report · 5

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)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1140 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1290 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.6×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1150 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1170 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1060 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2014-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0960 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2013-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0980 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2013-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2013-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 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

6.8 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1140 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1290 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2015-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  6. 2015-04-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2015-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  8. 2015-04-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1150 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2015-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2015-03-31Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  12. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1170 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1060 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2013-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0980 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2013-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2013-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2007-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2003-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections6
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFreeport
EPA ZIP on file77541-3113

Areas served

  • Brazoria County

Reading this record

Shintech Freeport Plant is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Freeport, 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.