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Community Water System · PWS TX0760012

Sylvester McCaulley WSC

Operator location Hamlin, Texas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 717 people served; 112 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

717
People served (this PWS)
112
EPA violations (this PWS)
18
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sylvester McCaulley WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third

717 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,009 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Sylvester McCaulley WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (112), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (717; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,009 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,634 of 3,040
Population · TX
112
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
239
County
Fisher
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
76
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Chlorine MR 41 2025
TTHM MCL 16 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 15 2023
Public Notice Other 10 2025
TTHM MR 8 2013
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2013
Nitrate MR 4 2013
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2020
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sylvester McCaulley WSC has 112 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 112), and it ranks #24,009 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)

112 Higher than most more violations than 75% 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 Sylvester McCaulley WSC

EPA SDWIS lists 717 people served and 239 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

112 violations · 717 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 with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Sylvester McCaulley WSC

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