Community Water System · PWS TX2120026
City of Winona
Operator location Winona, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 687 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,194 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,194
- People served (this PWS)
- 687
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Winona standing, high SDWIS violation third
687 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,003 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Winona sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (687), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,194 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,003 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,126 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 687
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- 398
- County
- Smith
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 578
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 75 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 46 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 36 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 15 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 14 | 2015 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Toluene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Benzene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Styrene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2018 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Winona has 687 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 687), and it ranks #18,003 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)
687 Higher than most more violations than 98% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for City of Winona
687 violations on record for TX2120026; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
687 violations · 1,194 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 City of Winona
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