Community Water System · PWS TX2270049
Deer Creek Water
Operator location Canyon Lake, Texas - 49% of 80 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,757 served per SDWIS.
- 2,757
- People served (this PWS)
- 80
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 39
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Deer Creek Water standing, high SDWIS violation third
49% of 80 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 49% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,221 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Deer Creek Water sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (80), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,757 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 49% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,221 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,367 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 80
- Total EPA violations on record
- 49%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 919
- County
- Travis
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 39
- Monitoring Violations
- 24
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 29 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 10 | 2013 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Deer Creek Water has 80 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 31% carry more. 49% of this system's own violations are health-based (39 of 80), and it ranks #11,221 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)
80 Around the middle fewer violations than 31% 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 Deer Creek Water
39 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2270049.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
80 violations · 2,757 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 Deer Creek Water
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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