Community Water System · PWS TX1013628
Harris County MUD 489
Operator location Houston, Texas - 0% of 12 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 10,476 served per SDWIS.
- 10,476
- People served (this PWS)
- 12
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Harris County MUD 489 standing, low SDWIS violation third
0% of 12 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 #4,510 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Harris County MUD 489 is in the lower third by violation count (12; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is large (10,476; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. 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.
- #4,510 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #398 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 12
- 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
- 3,492
- County
- Harris
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 12
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Harris County MUD 489 has 12 recorded EPA violations, 21% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 78% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 12), and it ranks #4,510 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)
12 Among the lowest violation counts fewer 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 Harris County MUD 489
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 TX1013628.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
12 violations · 10,476 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Harris County MUD 489
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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