Community Water System · PWS TX0810024
City of Fairfield - Westwood Utility
Operator location Fairfield, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 90 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,563 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,563
- People served (this PWS)
- 90
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Fairfield - Westwood Utility standing, high SDWIS violation third
90 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 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,556 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Fairfield - Westwood Utility sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (90), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,563 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,556 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,897 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 90
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- 521
- County
- Freestone
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 60
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 23 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 18 | 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 14 | 2023 |
| E. COLI | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Fairfield - Westwood Utility has 90 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 90), and it ranks #15,556 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)
90 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Fairfield - Westwood Utility
90 violations on record for TX0810024; 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
90 violations · 1,563 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with City of Fairfield - Westwood Utility
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