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Community Water System · PWS TX1012698

Baybrook MUD 1

Operator location Houston, Texas - 59% of 198 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,087 served per SDWIS.

3,087
People served (this PWS)
198
EPA violations (this PWS)
117
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Baybrook MUD 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third

59% of 198 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 59% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,420 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Baybrook MUD 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (198), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,087 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 59% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,420 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,253 of 3,040
Population · TX
198
Total EPA violations on record
59%
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
1,029
County
Harris
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
114
Monitoring Violations
63
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 57 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 54 2019
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 24 2017
Public Notice Other 16 2016
Coliform (TCR) MR 12 2013
Lead and Copper Rule MR 11 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2014
TTHM MR 8 2014
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2003
Lead and Copper Rule TT 3 2014
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Baybrook MUD 1 has 198 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 59% of this system's own violations are health-based (117 of 198), and it ranks #10,420 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)

198 Higher than most more violations than 85% 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 Baybrook MUD 1

117 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1012698.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch

Nationwide peers

198 violations · 3,087 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Baybrook MUD 1

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Texas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Texas systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater