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Nueces County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX355 · Nueces County 20 sys · 1,309 viol · #193/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 34.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #193/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 80%
  • SYS-SMALL 20 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Nueces County ranks #193 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #17 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Nueces County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 34.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #193 of 3,254 · #17 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Nueces County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Nueces · this county Austin · near Bee · highest 66.7% 89.5% 90% 90% 90.6% 90.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Corpus Christi 318,387 63 Detected
Nueces County Wcid 4 14,880 38 Detected
Nueces County Wcid 3 14,000 113 Detected
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station 7,048 32 Detected
City of Bishop 3,186 56 Detected
Nueces WSC 3,165 82 -
River Acres WSC 2,700 78 -
Violet WSC 2,670 91 -
Nueces County Wcid 5 912 202 -
Flint Hills Resources West 900 24 -
City of Agua Dulce 848 49 Detected
Ticona Polymers Bishop Facility 750 10 -
City of Driscoll 680 200 -
Equistar Chemicals 350 51 -
Golden Acres Water 207 132 -
Flint Hills Resources East 200 12 -
Dollar General Robstown Store 21109 150 0 -
Calallen Country Living RV Park 126 22 -
Times Market 52 50 0 -
American Chrome & Chemicals Na Facility 40 54 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Nueces County

Cross-state counties nearest Nueces County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,309). 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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