Community Water System · PWS TX2100013
Sand Hills WSC
Operator location Center, Texas - 47% of 101 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,500 served per SDWIS.
- 1,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 101
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 47
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sand Hills WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third
47% of 101 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 47% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,047 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sand Hills WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (101), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 47% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,047 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,942 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 101
- Total EPA violations on record
- 47%
- 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
- 489
- County
- Shelby
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 47
- Monitoring Violations
- 25
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 33 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 10 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2015 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2015 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sand Hills WSC has 101 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 47% of this system's own violations are health-based (47 of 101), and it ranks #16,047 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)
101 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% 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 Sand Hills WSC
47 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2100013.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
101 violations · 1,500 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Sand Hills WSC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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