What's in CITY OF BOWIE's water?
CITY OF BOWIE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,534 people get their water from it, across 3,883 connections.
CITY OF BOWIE's record against the rest of the country
8 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF BOWIE at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,381 of 12,903.
How CITY OF BOWIE compares within TX
CITY OF BOWIE's 1 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF BOWIE is from 2018-06-12 (health-based: 2003-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF BOWIE'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
Everything on this page is CITY OF BOWIE's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF BOWIE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,381th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.