Community Water System · PWSID TX2040032

Waterwood Mud 1

Serves 1,494 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHuntsville, Texas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2013: 19 violations. 9 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-02-03.

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
9Missed or late test
10Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32015 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
47% missed or late test · 953% notice or report · 10

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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

1.5 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2017-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2016-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2016-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2016-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2016-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2015-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-04-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2014-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2014-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2013-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2013-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,494
Service connections541
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHuntsville
EPA ZIP on file77320-9612

Areas served

  • San Jacinto County

Reading this record

Waterwood Mud 1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,494 people in Huntsville, 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.