Community Water System · PWS TX0140024
Bell County Wcid 5
Operator location Cameron, Texas - 53% of 72 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 579 served per SDWIS.
- 579
- People served (this PWS)
- 72
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 38
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bell County Wcid 5 standing, mid SDWIS violation third
53% of 72 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,895 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bell County Wcid 5 lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (579; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,895 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,866 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 72
- Total EPA violations on record
- 53%
- 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
- 193
- County
- Bell
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 35
- Monitoring Violations
- 22
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 33 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 16 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2016 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 2 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bell County Wcid 5 has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (38 of 72), and it ranks #26,895 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)
72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Bell County Wcid 5
38 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0140024.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
72 violations · 579 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bell County Wcid 5
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