Community Water System · PWS TX2530023
Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East
Operator location Zapata, Texas - 86% of 171 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 243 served per SDWIS.
- 243
- People served (this PWS)
- 171
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 147
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East standing, high SDWIS violation third
86% of 171 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (171), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (243; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 171
- Total EPA violations on record
- 86%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 243
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 81
- County
- Zapata
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 143
- Monitoring Violations
- 14
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 101 | 2009 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 42 | 2006 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 4 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 4 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East has 171 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (147 of 171), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
171 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
Health-based violations on Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East
147 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for TX2530023.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) - Drinking Water Watch
Nationwide peers
171 violations · 243 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.
What to do with Zapata County Wcid Hwy 16 East
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