Community Water System · PWS TX0370001
City of Alto
Operator location Alto, Texas - 0% of 285 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,225 served per SDWIS.
- 1,225
- People served (this PWS)
- 285
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Alto standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 285 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #17,639 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Alto sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (285), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,225 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,639 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,097 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 285
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 587
- County
- Cherokee
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 234
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 75 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 43 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 31 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2013 |
| E. COLI | MR | 8 | 2013 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Chlordane | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Endrin | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 2 | 1992 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2010 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Alto has 285 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 285), and it ranks #17,639 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)
285 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Alto
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0370001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
285 violations · 1,225 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 Alto
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