Is CITY OF YOAKUM's water safe to drink?

CITY OF YOAKUM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,814 people through 2,326 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

9 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF YOAKUM at the 36th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,306 of 12,903.

How CITY OF YOAKUM compares within TX

Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF YOAKUM's 1 is at or below that. 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 YOAKUM is from 2027-06-12 (health-based: 2015-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CITY OF YOAKUM'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

This is what CITY OF YOAKUM reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF YOAKUM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,306th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.