Community Water System · PWS TX2450003
City of Lyford
Operator location Lyford, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 172 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,421 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,421
- People served (this PWS)
- 172
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 29
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Lyford standing, high SDWIS violation third
172 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 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,180 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Lyford sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (172), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,421 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,180 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,495 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 172
- Total EPA violations on record
- 17%
- 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
- 807
- County
- Willacy
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 29
- Monitoring Violations
- 112
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 17 | 2004 |
| TTHM | MCL | 12 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Styrene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 1 | 1992 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Lyford has 172 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (29 of 172), and it ranks #12,180 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)
172 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Lyford
172 violations on record for TX2450003; 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
172 violations · 2,421 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 Lyford
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