Community Water System · PWS TX1013843
Harris County MUD 552
Operator location Houston, Texas - 0% of 35 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 1,683 served per SDWIS.
- 1,683
- People served (this PWS)
- 35
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Harris County MUD 552 standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 35 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 #14,985 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Harris County MUD 552 lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,683 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). 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.
- #14,985 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,829 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 35
- 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
- 561
- County
- Harris
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 21 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 14 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Harris County MUD 552 has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 35), and it ranks #14,985 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)
35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% 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 552
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 TX1013843.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
35 violations · 1,683 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 Harris County MUD 552
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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