Is CITY OF WINNSBORO's water safe to drink?
CITY OF WINNSBORO had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 3,614 people get their water from it, across 1,854 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF WINNSBORO has 20 violations on record in total, 6 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,101th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 76th percentile nationally.
Against the TX average
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF WINNSBORO's 6 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF WINNSBORO's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2023-07-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF WINNSBORO'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CITY OF WINNSBORO's record does not cover
CITY OF WINNSBORO'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 WINNSBORO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,101th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.