DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in CITY OF PALMER's water?

CITY OF PALMER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,015, over 1,005 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

46 total violations and 21 health-based ones put CITY OF PALMER at the 93th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 850 of 12,903.

Against the TX average

Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF PALMER's 21 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

CITY OF PALMER's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

CITY OF PALMER'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:

The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What CITY OF PALMER's record does not cover

This is what CITY OF PALMER 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 PALMER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 850th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.