Is CITY OF PEARSALL's water safe to drink?
CITY OF PEARSALL has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,985 people through 2,995 service connections.
CITY OF PEARSALL's record against the rest of the country
17 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF PEARSALL at the 51th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,281 of 12,903.
How CITY OF PEARSALL compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF PEARSALL's 2 is at or below 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 PEARSALL is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2015-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF PEARSALL'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: Coliform (TCR)
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
CITY OF PEARSALL'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. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF PEARSALL's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,281th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.