Is CITY OF LA VILLA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF LA VILLA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,781 people get their water from it, across 432 connections.
CITY OF LA VILLA's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CITY OF LA VILLA ranks 335th by violation burden (97th percentile) - 341 violations total, 43 health-baseds.
How CITY OF LA VILLA compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF LA VILLA's 43 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 LA VILLA is from 2025-01-04 (health-based: 2016-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF LA VILLA'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
Everything on this page is CITY OF LA VILLA's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF LA VILLA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 335th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.