Community Water System · PWS TX0910035
Ridgecrest
Operator location Austin, Texas - 90% of 405 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,968 served per SDWIS.
- 1,968
- People served (this PWS)
- 405
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 365
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ridgecrest standing, high SDWIS violation third
90% of 405 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 90% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,787 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ridgecrest sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (405), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,968 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 90% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,787 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,687 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 405
- Total EPA violations on record
- 90%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 656
- County
- Grayson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 365
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 220 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 114 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 20 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 14 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 10 | 2005 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 7 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ridgecrest has 405 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 90% of this system's own violations are health-based (365 of 405), and it ranks #13,787 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)
405 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Ridgecrest
365 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0910035.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
405 violations · 1,968 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 Ridgecrest
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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