Community Water System · PWS TX2460005
City of Florence
Operator location Florence, Texas - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 98 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,136 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,136
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Florence standing, high SDWIS violation third
98 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 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,339 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Florence sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,136 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,339 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #2,159 of 3,040
- Population · TX
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- 521
- County
- Williamson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 80
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2005 |
| Chlorine | MR | 11 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 11 | 2016 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2025 |
| Dalapon | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Picloram | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 3 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MCL | 3 | 2025 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| E. COLI | MR | 1 | 2011 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 1 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Florence has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 98), and it ranks #18,339 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Florence
98 violations on record for TX2460005; 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
98 violations · 1,136 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 Florence
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