Community Water System · PWS TX1011685
Morton Road MUD
Operator location Houston, Texas - 65% of 130 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,817 served per SDWIS.
- 2,817
- People served (this PWS)
- 130
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 84
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Morton Road MUD standing, high SDWIS violation third
65% of 130 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 65% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,071 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Morton Road MUD sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (130), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,817 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 65% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,071 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,351 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 130
- Total EPA violations on record
- 65%
- 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
- 940
- County
- Harris
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 84
- Monitoring Violations
- 33
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 84 | 2019 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 2 | 1993 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2009 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2007 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Morton Road MUD has 130 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 21% carry more. 65% of this system's own violations are health-based (84 of 130), and it ranks #11,071 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)
130 Higher than most more violations than 78% 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 Morton Road MUD
84 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1011685.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
130 violations · 2,817 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 Morton Road MUD
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