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Community Water System · PWS TX2020014

Beechwood WSC

Operator location Hemphill, Texas - 53% of 247 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,138 served per SDWIS.

1,138
People served (this PWS)
247
EPA violations (this PWS)
130
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Beechwood WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third

53% of 247 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,326 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Beechwood WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (247), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,138 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,326 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,156 of 3,040
Population · TX
247
Total EPA violations on record
53%
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
515
County
Sabine
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
127
Monitoring Violations
43
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 64 2019
TTHM MCL 63 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 24 2018
Public Notice Other 18 2025
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 12 2024
Chlorine MR 8 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2005
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 5 2025
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Beechwood WSC has 247 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (130 of 247), and it ranks #18,326 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)

247 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Beechwood WSC

130 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2020014.

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

Nationwide peers

247 violations · 1,138 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 Beechwood WSC

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