CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 318,387 people get their water from it, across 105,431 connections.
How this compares nationally
17 total violations and 9 health-based ones put CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI at the 83th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,212 of 12,903.
Against the TX average
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI's 9 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 2021-01-02. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI's record does not cover
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI'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 CORPUS CHRISTI's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,212th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.