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Houston County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX225 · Houston County 10 sys · 586 viol · #1398/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 42.3% health
  • RANK-MID #1398/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 70%
  • SYS-SMALL 10 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Collin County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Houston County ranks #1,398 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #95 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Houston County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 42.3% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,398 of 3,254 · #95 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Houston County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Houston County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Bee · highest Hidalgo · near Guadalupe · near 66.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
The Consolidated WSC Rural System 10,689 28 Clean
City of Crockett 7,755 85 Clean
The Consolidated WSC Central System 3,878 138 Detected
Tdcj Wainwright Unit 3,148 33 -
City of Grapeland 1,798 41 -
City of Lovelady 990 63 -
City of Kennard 460 13 -
Ratcliff WSC 275 69 -
Houston County Wcid 1 48 100 Clean
Premium Waters 25 16 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Houston County

Cross-state counties nearest Houston County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (586). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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