Is CITY OF PORT LAVACA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF PORT LAVACA has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. It serves 12,000 people through 6,600 service connections.
CITY OF PORT LAVACA's record against the rest of the country
CITY OF PORT LAVACA has 58 violations on record in total, 32 of thems health-based - ranking it 526th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 96th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF PORT LAVACA compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF PORT LAVACA carries 32, more than typical for the state. 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 PORT LAVACA is from 2026-12-10 (health-based: 2026-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF PORT LAVACA'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 PORT LAVACA'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 PORT LAVACA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 526th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.