CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,157 people through 765 service connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES has 30 violations on record in total, 12 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,603th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 88th percentile nationally.
Against the TX average
CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES's 12 health-based violations sit above the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-06-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES's record does not cover
This is what CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF COTTONWOOD SHORES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,603th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.