Is CITY OF BUDA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF BUDA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 13,830 people through 6,197 service connections.
CITY OF BUDA's record against the rest of the country
34 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF BUDA at the 53th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,028 of 12,903.
How CITY OF BUDA compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF BUDA carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 BUDA is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 2010-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF BUDA'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
CITY OF BUDA'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 BUDA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,028th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.