Community Water System · PWS TX0700023
Rural Bardwell WSC
Operator location Itasca, Texas - 69% of 434 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 756 served per SDWIS.
- 756
- People served (this PWS)
- 434
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 301
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Rural Bardwell WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third
69% of 434 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 69% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,246 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Rural Bardwell WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (434), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (756; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 69% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,246 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,560 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 434
- Total EPA violations on record
- 69%
- 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
- 252
- County
- Ellis
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 301
- Monitoring Violations
- 67
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MCL | 288 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 43 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 12 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MCL | 11 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2007 |
| Chlorine | MR | 5 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 5 | 1993 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 1999 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1993 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Rural Bardwell WSC has 434 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 69% of this system's own violations are health-based (301 of 434), and it ranks #23,246 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)
434 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Rural Bardwell WSC
301 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0700023.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
434 violations · 756 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Rural Bardwell WSC
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