Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS TX1910002
Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park
Operator location Austin, Texas - 31% of 88 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,964 served per SDWIS.
- 3,964
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 27
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park standing, high SDWIS violation third
31% of 88 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #8,924 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (3,964; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,924 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,026 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 31%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- State
- Connections
- 164
- County
- Randall
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 44
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 20
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 26 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 12 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 7 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MCL | 7 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 88), and it ranks #8,924 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)
88 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
Health-based violations on Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park
27 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX1910002.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
88 violations · 3,964 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Tpwd Palo Duro Canyon State Park
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