Community Water System · PWS TX0460060
Scenic Heights
Operator location Austin, Texas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 336 people served; 62 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 336
- People served (this PWS)
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Scenic Heights standing, mid SDWIS violation third
336 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Scenic Heights lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (336; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 62
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 336
- 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
- 112
- County
- Comal
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 49
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 43 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 3 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 2 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Scenic Heights has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 62), 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)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Scenic Heights
EPA SDWIS lists 336 people served and 112 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 336 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Scenic Heights
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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