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Nueces County Wcid 5

Operator location Banquete, Texas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 912 people served; 202 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

912
People served (this PWS)
202
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Nueces County Wcid 5 standing, high SDWIS violation third

912 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,824 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Nueces County Wcid 5 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (202), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (912; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#20,824 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,376 of 3,040
Population · TX
202
Total EPA violations on record
3%
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
304
County
Nueces
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
128
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Chlorine MR 72 2021
Public Notice Other 47 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 27 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 16 2023
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 13 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 13 2015
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Nueces County Wcid 5 has 202 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 202), and it ranks #20,824 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)

202 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Nueces County Wcid 5

EPA SDWIS lists 912 people served and 304 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

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

Nationwide peers

202 violations · 912 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 with smaller service footprints

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

4 peers

What to do with Nueces County Wcid 5

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