Community Water System · PWS TX0790315
Fort Bend County MUD 46
Operator location Houston, Texas - 0% of 66 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 2,247 served per SDWIS.
- 2,247
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fort Bend County MUD 46 standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #12,712 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fort Bend County MUD 46 lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,247 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,712 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,571 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 749
- County
- Fort Bend
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 66
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endrin | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Chlordane | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fort Bend County MUD 46 has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 66), and it ranks #12,712 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)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Fort Bend County MUD 46
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0790315.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 2,247 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 Fort Bend County MUD 46
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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