Community Water System · PWSID TX1820050

Sportsmans World Mud

Serves 672 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentHouston, 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 2011: 30 violations. 16 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 8 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

16Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
8Missed or late test
5Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Over the limit: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
53% over the limit · 163% treatment lapse · 127% missed or late test · 817% 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)2024-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2024-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2024-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2023-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2023-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2022-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0950 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1180 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1220 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1080 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0970 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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

2 ppb
1.8 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-03-06Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-07-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2021-12-03Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  15. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0950 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1180 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1220 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1080 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0970 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2015-02-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2015-02-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served672
Service connections331
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHouston
EPA ZIP on file77019-2191

Areas served

  • Palo Pinto County

Reading this record

Sportsmans World Mud is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 672 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.