CITY OF TERRELL: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF TERRELL has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 18,432 people get their water from it, across 20,730 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
8 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF TERRELL at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,358 of 12,903.
How CITY OF TERRELL compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF TERRELL's 1 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 TERRELL is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 1991-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF TERRELL'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 TERRELL'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 TERRELL's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,358th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.