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Lavaca County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX285 · Lavaca County 9 sys · 783 viol · #2636/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 20.3% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2636/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Burnet County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lavaca County ranks #2,636 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #185 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lavaca County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 20.3% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Lavaca County . Population served ranks #2,636 of 3,254 · #185 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lavaca County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Burnet · near Chambers · near Bee · highest 66.7% 88.3% 88.6% 88.9% 89.3% 89.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Hallettsville 2,733 8 -
City of Shiner 2,127 7 -
City of Moulton 857 360 -
Hope Silver Stop Convenience Store 500 0 -
St Mary Parish Hallettsville 200 136 -
Sweet Home Isd 176 93 -
Ezzell Isd 107 51 -
Vysehrad School 75 120 -
Shiner Boggy Creek RV Park 58 8 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Lavaca County

Cross-state counties nearest Lavaca County on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (783). 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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