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Community Water System · PWS TX0200510

Town of Quintana

Operator location Quintana, Texas - 77% of 447 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 231 served per SDWIS.

231
People served (this PWS)
447
EPA violations (this PWS)
346
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Quintana standing, high SDWIS violation third

77% of 447 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 77% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Town of Quintana sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (447), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (231; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 77% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

447
Total EPA violations on record
77%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
231
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
77
County
Brazoria
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
338
Monitoring Violations
73
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 207 2024
Arsenic MCL 99 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 28 2021
Public Notice Other 23 2023
Chlorine MR 22 2018
Lead and Copper Rule MR 18 2025
Coliform (TCR) MR 15 2013
TTHM MR 14 2023
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2014
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 2023
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
E. COLI MR 4 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Quintana has 447 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 77% of this system's own violations are health-based (346 of 447), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

447 Higher than most more violations than 95% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Town of Quintana

346 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0200510.

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

Nationwide peers

447 violations · 231 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

What to do with Town of Quintana

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

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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