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Community Water System · PWS TX1090003

City of Itasca

Operator location Itasca, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 95 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,625 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,625
People served (this PWS)
95
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Itasca standing, high SDWIS violation third

95 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,221 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Itasca sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (95), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,625 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,221 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,858 of 3,040
Population · TX
95
Total EPA violations on record
4%
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
639
County
Hill
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
1
Monitoring Violations
66
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 25 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 21 2025
Chlorine MR 16 2014
Public Notice Other 12 2025
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 7 2023
E. COLI MR 4 2022
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 1 1991

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Itasca has 95 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 95), and it ranks #15,221 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)

95 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for City of Itasca

95 violations on record for TX1090003; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

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

Nationwide peers

95 violations · 1,625 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with City of Itasca

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

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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