Is CITY OF WESLACO's water safe to drink?
CITY OF WESLACO has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. Population served: 40,033, over 12,361 connections.
CITY OF WESLACO's record against the rest of the country
15 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF WESLACO at the 51th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,321 of 12,903.
How CITY OF WESLACO compares within TX
CITY OF WESLACO's 2 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. 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 WESLACO is from 2026-02-04 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF WESLACO'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CITY OF WESLACO'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 WESLACO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,321th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.