What's in CITY OF ELSA's water?
CITY OF ELSA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,500, over 2,194 connections.
CITY OF ELSA's record against the rest of the country
CITY OF ELSA has 90 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,374th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 74th percentile nationally.
Against the TX average
CITY OF ELSA's 5 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF ELSA's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF ELSA'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); 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 ELSA's record does not cover
This is what CITY OF ELSA 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 ELSA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,374th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.