Community Water System · PWS TX1320006
Rio Brazos Water System
Operator location Synder, Texas - 64% of 977 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 225 served per SDWIS.
- 225
- People served (this PWS)
- 977
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 621
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Rio Brazos Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
64% of 977 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 64% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Rio Brazos Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (977), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (225; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 64% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 977
- Total EPA violations on record
- 64%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 225
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 143
- County
- Kent
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 618
- Monitoring Violations
- 168
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 301 | 2022 |
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 245 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 171 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 92 | 2021 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 72 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 49 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 19 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2022 |
| E. COLI | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Rio Brazos Water System has 977 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 64% of this system's own violations are health-based (621 of 977), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
977 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Rio Brazos Water System
621 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1320006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
977 violations · 225 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.
What to do with Rio Brazos Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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