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Community Water System · PWS TX1590002

Martin County Fwsd 1

Operator location Lenorah, Texas - 62% of 325 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 54 served per SDWIS.

54
People served (this PWS)
325
EPA violations (this PWS)
200
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Martin County Fwsd 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third

62% of 325 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 62% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Martin County Fwsd 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (325), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (54; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 62% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

325
Total EPA violations on record
62%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
54
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
18
County
Martin
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
196
Monitoring Violations
71
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 190 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 28 2021
Public Notice Other 22 2025
Lead and Copper Rule MR 16 2021
Chlorine MR 12 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2007
Coliform (TCR) MCL 6 2003
E. COLI MR 4 2018
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2019
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) Other 2 1992

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Martin County Fwsd 1 has 325 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 62% of this system's own violations are health-based (200 of 325), 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)

325 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Martin County Fwsd 1

200 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1590002.

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

Nationwide peers

325 violations · 54 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

What to do with Martin County Fwsd 1

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