Community Water System · PWS TX2290002
Chester WSC
Operator location Chester, Texas - 5% of 64 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,237 served per SDWIS.
- 1,237
- People served (this PWS)
- 64
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Chester WSC standing, mid SDWIS violation third
5% of 64 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,558 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Chester WSC lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,237 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,558 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,089 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 64
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- 472
- County
- Tyler
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 13 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2003 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 3 | 1993 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 1 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Chester WSC has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 64), and it ranks #17,558 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)
64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Chester WSC
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2290002.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
64 violations · 1,237 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Chester WSC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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