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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS TX2060013

Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park

Operator location Austin, Texas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 191 people served; 23 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

191
People served (this PWS)
23
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park standing, mid SDWIS violation third

191 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park lands in the middle third by violation volume (23), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (191; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

23
Total EPA violations on record
17%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
191
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
7
County
San Saba
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
E. COLI MR 8 2025
Nitrate MR 4 2024
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 4 2025
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 2005
Public Notice Other 1 2025
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 1993
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1992

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park has 23 recorded EPA violations, 35% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 64% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 23), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

23 Lower than most fewer violations than 64% 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 Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park

EPA SDWIS lists 191 people served and 7 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

23 violations · 191 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Tpwd Colorado Bend State Park

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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