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Community Water System · PWS TX0740002

City of Dodd City

Operator location Dodd City, Texas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 729 people served; 50 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

729
People served (this PWS)
50
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Dodd City standing, mid SDWIS violation third

729 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,810 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Dodd City lands in the middle third by violation volume (50), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (729; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,810 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,613 of 3,040
Population · TX
50
Total EPA violations on record
14%
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
243
County
Fannin
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
27
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 14 2021
Chlorine MR 8 2021
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 6 2014
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2004
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
Groundwater Rule TT 3 2020
Public Notice Other 3 2025
Nitrate MR 1 2011

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Dodd City has 50 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 50), and it ranks #23,810 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)

50 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 City of Dodd City

EPA SDWIS lists 729 people served and 243 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

50 violations · 729 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with City of Dodd City

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