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Community Water System · PWS TX0520001

City of Crane

Operator location Crane, Texas - 90% of 264 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,150 served per SDWIS.

3,150
People served (this PWS)
264
EPA violations (this PWS)
237
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Crane standing, high SDWIS violation third

90% of 264 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 90% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,281 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Crane sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (264), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,150 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 90% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,281 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,224 of 3,040
Population · TX
264
Total EPA violations on record
90%
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
1,857
County
Crane
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
233
Monitoring Violations
9
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MCL 233 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 9 2024
Public Notice Other 6 2014
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2017

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Crane has 264 recorded EPA violations, 89% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 11% carry more. 90% of this system's own violations are health-based (237 of 264), and it ranks #10,281 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)

264 Higher than most more violations than 89% 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 Crane

237 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0520001.

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

Nationwide peers

264 violations · 3,150 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 near this population served

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

4 peers

What to do with City of Crane

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Texas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Texas systems
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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