Is CITY OF JACKSBORO's water safe to drink?
CITY OF JACKSBORO has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,397, over 1,864 connections.
CITY OF JACKSBORO's record against the rest of the country
43 total violations and 12 health-based ones put CITY OF JACKSBORO at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,581 of 12,903.
How CITY OF JACKSBORO compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF JACKSBORO's 12 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF JACKSBORO is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF JACKSBORO'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
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
CITY OF JACKSBORO'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. This record - 12 health-based violations on file for CITY OF JACKSBORO - 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.