BENTON CITY WSC: EPA violation history, explained
BENTON CITY WSC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 32,000 people get their water from it, across 7,995 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
31 total violations and 23 health-based ones put BENTON CITY WSC at the 94th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 785 of 12,903.
How BENTON CITY WSC compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - BENTON CITY WSC's 23 is above that. 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 BENTON CITY WSC is from 2021-05-09 (health-based: 2004-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BENTON CITY WSC'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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is BENTON CITY WSC's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 23 health-based violations on file for BENTON CITY WSC - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.