Community Water System · PWSID TX0210010

Smetana Forest

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCypress, Texas
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On record since 2002: 37 violations. 18 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-10.

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

18Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
17Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

2002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
49% over the limit · 185% missed or late test · 246% notice or report · 17

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)2025-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0960 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1230 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2024-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2023-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2023-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1130 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2022-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1160 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2022-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1140 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2022-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2022-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1000 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1210 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2018-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0960 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0970 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1230 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · 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

0.88 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-03-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1230 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2023-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2023-03-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1130 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2022-12-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1160 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1140 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2022-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2019-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-04-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1000 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2018-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1210 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0970 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1230 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2013-03-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2013-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2006-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections56
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCypress
EPA ZIP on file77429-7080

Areas served

  • Brazos County

Reading this record

Smetana Forest is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Cypress, 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.