Community Water System · PWS TX1370035
South Texas Water Authority
Operator location Kingsville, Texas - 27% of 15 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 16 served per SDWIS.
- 16
- People served (this PWS)
- 15
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
South Texas Water Authority standing, low SDWIS violation third
27% of 15 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 27% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
South Texas Water Authority is in the lower third by violation count (15; 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 smaller (16; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 27% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 15
- Total EPA violations on record
- 27%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 16
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 15,223
- County
- Kleberg
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 4 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
South Texas Water Authority has 15 recorded EPA violations, 25% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 74% carry more. 27% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 15), 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)
15 Lower than most fewer violations than 74% 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 South Texas Water Authority
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1370035.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
15 violations · 16 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.
What to do with South Texas Water Authority
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