Is CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE's water safe to drink?
CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 19,200 people get their water from it, across 6,400 connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE has 27 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,107th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 53th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE carries 2, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2008-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE'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 WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE'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 WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,107th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.