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Community Water System · PWS TX2270173

Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow

Operator location Austin, Texas - 49% of 69 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,002 served per SDWIS.

1,002
People served (this PWS)
69
EPA violations (this PWS)
34
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow standing, mid SDWIS violation third

49% of 69 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 #19,396 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow lands in the middle third by violation volume (69), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,002 (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.

#19,396 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#2,257 of 3,040
Population · TX
69
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
334
County
Travis
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
34
Monitoring Violations
17
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 34 2016
Public Notice Other 5 2021
Lead and Copper Rule MR 5 2019
Chlorine MR 3 2008
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 3 2019
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 3 2019
Combined Uranium MR 3 2019

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow has 69 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 49% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 69), and it ranks #19,396 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)

69 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% 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 Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow

34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2270173.

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

Nationwide peers

69 violations · 1,002 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Hill Country Northwest Cherry Hollow

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
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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