SOUTH COUNCIL CREEK 2

Water Quality Snapshot: SOUTH COUNCIL CREEK 2

SOUTH COUNCIL CREEK 2 is a private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 111 residents in DES PERES, Texas (Burnet County) through 37 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 529 total violations for this system , of which 365 (69%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 58 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Combined Radium (-226 and -228), recorded in 183 violations (MCL, health-based). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Texas, EPA tracks 7,351 public water systems serving 33,253,313 people, with 746,210 cumulative violations and 162,945 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 101.5 violations. SOUTH COUNCIL CREEK 2's 529 violations sit above the Texas average. Statewide, 1,068 of 1,147 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (93.1%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.