Is BELL COUNTY WCID 3's water safe to drink?
BELL COUNTY WCID 3 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 7,836 people get their water from it, across 2,612 connections.
BELL COUNTY WCID 3's record against the rest of the country
10 total violations and 1 health-based ones put BELL COUNTY WCID 3 at the 36th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,223 of 12,903.
How BELL COUNTY WCID 3 compares within TX
BELL COUNTY WCID 3's 1 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BELL COUNTY WCID 3 is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2007-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BELL COUNTY WCID 3's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what BELL COUNTY WCID 3 reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 10 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.