Is CITY OF NEEDVILLE's water safe to drink?
CITY OF NEEDVILLE had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 3,089 people get their water from it, across 1,290 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF NEEDVILLE has 8 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,670th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 48th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF NEEDVILLE compares within TX
CITY OF NEEDVILLE's 2 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
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF NEEDVILLE is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF NEEDVILLE'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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
Everything on this page is CITY OF NEEDVILLE's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 8 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.