Is CITY OF PORT NECHES's water safe to drink?
CITY OF PORT NECHES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 17,043 people get their water from it, across 6,763 connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF PORT NECHES has 12 violations on record in total, 6 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,216th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 75th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF PORT NECHES compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF PORT NECHES's 6 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 PORT NECHES is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2017-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF PORT NECHES'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; 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 PORT NECHES'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 12 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.