Community Water System · PWS TX0950001
City of Abernathy
Operator location Abernathy, Texas - 6% of 47 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,865 served per SDWIS.
- 2,865
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Abernathy standing, mid SDWIS violation third
6% of 47 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,971 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Abernathy lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,865 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,971 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,335 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- 1,350
- County
- Hale
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2007 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2018 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 3 | 1983 |
| E. COLI | MR | 2 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Abernathy has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 47), and it ranks #10,971 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)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Abernathy
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX0950001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
47 violations · 2,865 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 City of Abernathy
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