Community Water System · PWS TX0690012
City of Rocksprings
Operator location Rocksprings, Texas - 7% of 58 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,857 served per SDWIS.
- 1,857
- People served (this PWS)
- 58
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Rocksprings standing, mid SDWIS violation third
7% of 58 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,202 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Rocksprings lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,857 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,202 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,737 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 58
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- 574
- County
- Edwards
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 34
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 16 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 14 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Rocksprings has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 58), and it ranks #14,202 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)
58 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Rocksprings
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0690012.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
58 violations · 1,857 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.
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 Rocksprings
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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