What's in CITY OF BIG LAKE's water?
CITY OF BIG LAKE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,965 people through 1,976 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CITY OF BIG LAKE ranks 4,253th by violation burden (67th percentile) - 16 violations total, 4 health-baseds.
How CITY OF BIG LAKE compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF BIG LAKE's 4 is at or below 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 CITY OF BIG LAKE is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1991-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF BIG LAKE'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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
CITY OF BIG LAKE's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF BIG LAKE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,253th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.