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Community Water System · PWS TX0050001

City of Archer City

Operator location Archer City, Texas - 89% of 108 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,595 served per SDWIS.

1,595
People served (this PWS)
108
EPA violations (this PWS)
96
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Archer City standing, high SDWIS violation third

89% of 108 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 89% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,424 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Archer City sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (108), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,595 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 89% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,424 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,880 of 3,040
Population · TX
108
Total EPA violations on record
89%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1,119
County
Archer
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
96
Monitoring Violations
9
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 63 2008
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 33 2008
E. COLI MR 4 2009
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 4 2020
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Archer City has 108 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 89% of this system's own violations are health-based (96 of 108), and it ranks #15,424 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

108 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on City of Archer City

96 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0050001.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch

Nationwide peers

108 violations · 1,595 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with City of Archer City

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Texas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Texas systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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