Community Water System · PWS TX0890003
City of Waelder
Operator location Waelder, Texas - 0% of 230 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 970 served per SDWIS.
- 970
- People served (this PWS)
- 230
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Waelder standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 230 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 #20,152 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Waelder sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (230), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (970; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. 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.
- #20,152 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,310 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 230
- 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
- 617
- County
- Gonzales
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 205
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 38 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 13 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 7 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2023 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Simazine | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Waelder has 230 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 230), and it ranks #20,152 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)
230 Higher than most more violations than 87% 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 City of Waelder
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 TX0890003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
230 violations · 970 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with City of Waelder
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