CANDELARIA WSC

Water Quality Snapshot: CANDELARIA WSC

CANDELARIA WSC is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 138 residents in MARFA, Texas (Presidio County) through 46 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 2,216 total violations for this system , of which 290 (13%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 1,335 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Public Notice, recorded in 548 violations (Other). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Texas, EPA tracks 7,351 public water systems serving 33,253,313 people, with 746,210 cumulative violations and 162,945 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 101.5 violations. CANDELARIA WSC's 2,216 violations sit above the Texas average. Statewide, 1,068 of 1,147 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (93.1%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.