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Community Water System · PWS TX2100010

City of Joaquin

Operator location Joaquin, Texas - 39% of 207 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,620 served per SDWIS.

1,620
People served (this PWS)
207
EPA violations (this PWS)
81
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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City of Joaquin standing, high SDWIS violation third

39% of 207 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 39% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,243 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

City of Joaquin sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (207), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,620 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 39% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,243 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#1,863 of 3,040
Population · TX
207
Total EPA violations on record
39%
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
1,059
County
Shelby
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
75
Monitoring Violations
62
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 38 2014
Public Notice Other 32 2025
TTHM MCL 22 2019
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 20 2022
Lead and Copper Rule MR 18 2022
E. COLI MR 12 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2014
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2024
Chlorine MR 4 2020
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 3 2022
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024
Fluoride MCL 3 1984

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

City of Joaquin has 207 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 39% of this system's own violations are health-based (81 of 207), and it ranks #15,243 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)

207 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 City of Joaquin

81 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2100010.

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

Nationwide peers

207 violations · 1,620 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 City of Joaquin

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