Community Water System · PWS TX0270013
City of Cottonwood Shores
Operator location Cottonwood Shores, Texas - 61% of 89 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,157 served per SDWIS.
- 2,157
- People served (this PWS)
- 89
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 54
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Cottonwood Shores standing, high SDWIS violation third
61% of 89 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 61% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,998 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Cottonwood Shores sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (89), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,157 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 61% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,998 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,608 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 89
- Total EPA violations on record
- 61%
- 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
- 765
- County
- Burnet
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 54
- Monitoring Violations
- 30
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 36 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 18 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2012 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2021 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Cottonwood Shores has 89 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 61% of this system's own violations are health-based (54 of 89), and it ranks #12,998 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)
89 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Cottonwood Shores
54 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0270013.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
89 violations · 2,157 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 Cottonwood Shores
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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