Is CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. It serves 14,800 people through 3,947 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM has 18 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,878th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 39th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM carries 1, 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 HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for CITY OF HIDALGO WATER SYSTEM - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.