Community Water System · PWS TX0160002
City of Blanco
Operator location Blanco, Texas - 34% of 562 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,192 served per SDWIS.
- 3,192
- People served (this PWS)
- 562
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 190
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Blanco standing, high SDWIS violation third
34% of 562 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 34% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,189 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Blanco sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (562), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,192 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 34% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,189 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,210 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 562
- Total EPA violations on record
- 34%
- 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
- 1,091
- County
- Blanco
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 186
- Monitoring Violations
- 301
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 156 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 53 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 26 | 2005 |
| TTHM | MR | 16 | 2020 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 13 | 2025 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Toluene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2017 |
| Styrene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Dalapon | MR | 4 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Blanco has 562 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 34% of this system's own violations are health-based (190 of 562), and it ranks #10,189 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)
562 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 Blanco
190 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0160002.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
562 violations · 3,192 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with City of Blanco
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