Community Water System · PWS TX2390055
Central Washington County WSC
Operator location Brenham, Texas - 83% of 82 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,270 served per SDWIS.
- 2,270
- People served (this PWS)
- 82
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 68
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Central Washington County WSC standing, high SDWIS violation third
83% of 82 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 83% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,646 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Central Washington County WSC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (82), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,270 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 83% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,646 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,560 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 82
- Total EPA violations on record
- 83%
- 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
- 980
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 68
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 68 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 5 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Central Washington County WSC has 82 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 31% carry more. 83% of this system's own violations are health-based (68 of 82), and it ranks #12,646 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)
82 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 Central Washington County WSC
68 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2390055.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
82 violations · 2,270 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 Central Washington County WSC
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