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Community Water System · PWS TX0680012

City of Goldsmith

Operator location Goldsmith, Texas - 70% of 189 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 257 served per SDWIS.

257
People served (this PWS)
189
EPA violations (this PWS)
132
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Goldsmith standing, high SDWIS violation third

70% of 189 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 70% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

City of Goldsmith sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (189), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (257; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 70% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

189
Total EPA violations on record
70%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
257
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
Local
Connections
237
County
Ector
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
132
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MCL 132 2022
Lead and Copper Rule MR 18 2022
Chlorine MR 14 2020
Public Notice Other 11 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 10 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1991

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Goldsmith has 189 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 70% of this system's own violations are health-based (132 of 189), 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)

189 Higher than most more violations than 84% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on City of Goldsmith

132 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0680012.

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

Nationwide peers

189 violations · 257 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

What to do with City of Goldsmith

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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