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Community Water System · PWS TX0230001

Silverton Municipal Water System

Operator location Silverton, Texas - 77% of 315 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 597 served per SDWIS.

597
People served (this PWS)
315
EPA violations (this PWS)
242
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Silverton Municipal Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

77% of 315 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%). Population rank #26,639 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Silverton Municipal Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (315), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (597; 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.

#26,639 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,842 of 3,040
Population · TX
315
Total EPA violations on record
77%
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
342
County
Briscoe
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
242
Monitoring Violations
30
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 175 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 65 2017
Chlorine MR 14 2025
Public Notice Other 9 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 8 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2021
TTHM MR 4 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2017
Fluoride MCL 2 2002
Nitrate MR 1 2009

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Silverton Municipal Water System has 315 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 77% of this system's own violations are health-based (242 of 315), and it ranks #26,639 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)

315 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Silverton Municipal Water System

242 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0230001.

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

Nationwide peers

315 violations · 597 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 with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Silverton Municipal Water System

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