Is CITY OF TROUP's water safe to drink?
CITY OF TROUP has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,006, over 998 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF TROUP has 9 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,621th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 49th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF TROUP compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF TROUP carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 TROUP is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2005-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF TROUP'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
Everything on this page is CITY OF TROUP's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF TROUP's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,621th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.