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Community Water System · PWS TX0760002

City of Rotan

Operator location Rotan, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 286 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,983 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,983
People served (this PWS)
286
EPA violations (this PWS)
45
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Rotan standing, high SDWIS violation third

286 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,739 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Rotan sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (286), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,983 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,739 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,677 of 3,040
Population · TX
286
Total EPA violations on record
16%
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
1,291
County
Fisher
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
37
Monitoring Violations
160
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 101 2025
Public Notice Other 59 2025
TTHM MCL 36 2024
Chlorine MR 29 2025
TTHM MR 16 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2004
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 11 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 5 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024
Coliform (TCR) Other 1 1992
Coliform (TCR) MCL 1 1992

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Rotan has 286 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (45 of 286), and it ranks #13,739 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)

286 Higher than most more violations than 90% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for City of Rotan

286 violations on record for TX0760002; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

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

Nationwide peers

286 violations · 1,983 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 Rotan

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

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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