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Community Water System · PWS TX1830009

Hollands Quarter WSC

Operator location Carthage, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 89 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,605 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,605
People served (this PWS)
89
EPA violations (this PWS)
20
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hollands Quarter WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third

89 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,304 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Hollands Quarter WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (89), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,605 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,304 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,871 of 3,040
Population · TX
89
Total EPA violations on record
22%
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
535
County
Panola
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
35
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
E. COLI MR 12 2022
Lead and Copper Rule MR 10 2024
TTHM MR 8 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 8 2023
TTHM MCL 8 2023
Chlorine MR 4 2008
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024
Public Notice Other 2 2024
Groundwater Rule Other 1 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1993
Coliform (TCR) Other 1 1993

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hollands Quarter WSC has 89 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 89), and it ranks #15,304 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)

89 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Hollands Quarter WSC

89 violations on record for TX1830009; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

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

Nationwide peers

89 violations · 1,605 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 near this population served

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

4 peers

What to do with Hollands Quarter WSC

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