Is CITY OF DE LEON's water safe to drink?
CITY OF DE LEON had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 2,171 people get their water from it, across 1,125 connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF DE LEON has 25 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,164th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 83th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF DE LEON compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF DE LEON's 9 is above 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 DE LEON is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2024-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF DE LEON'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)
- 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 this data is and is not
This is what CITY OF DE LEON 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 DE LEON's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,164th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.