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Community Water System · PWS TX1460109

Cypress Lakes Water System

Operator location Cleveland, Texas - 20% of 40 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,047 served per SDWIS.

1,047
People served (this PWS)
40
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cypress Lakes Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third

20% of 40 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #19,022 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Cypress Lakes Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (40), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,047 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,022 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,231 of 3,040
Population · TX
40
Total EPA violations on record
20%
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
Private
Connections
349
County
Liberty
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
12
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Public Notice Other 8 2025
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2009
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2019
Chlorine MR 4 2016
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 2017
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cypress Lakes Water System has 40 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 49% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 40), and it ranks #19,022 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)

40 Around the middle fewer violations than 49% 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 Cypress Lakes Water System

8 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1460109.

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

Nationwide peers

40 violations · 1,047 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Cypress Lakes Water System

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
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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