Community Water System · PWS TX0200570
Bayou Shadows Water System
Operator location Alvin, Texas - 55% of 430 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 174 served per SDWIS.
- 174
- People served (this PWS)
- 430
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 235
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bayou Shadows Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
55% of 430 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 55% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Bayou Shadows Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (430), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (174; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 55% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 430
- Total EPA violations on record
- 55%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 174
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 58
- County
- Brazoria
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 223
- Monitoring Violations
- 142
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 223 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 71 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 42 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 41 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 23 | 2009 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 8 | 2021 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 4 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bayou Shadows Water System has 430 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 55% of this system's own violations are health-based (235 of 430), 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)
430 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Bayou Shadows Water System
235 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0200570.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
430 violations · 174 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.
What to do with Bayou Shadows Water System
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