DEAN DALE SUD: EPA violation history, explained

DEAN DALE SUD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,492 people get their water from it, across 1,450 connections.

DEAN DALE SUD's record against the rest of the country

DEAN DALE SUD has 15 violations on record in total, 6 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,175th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 75th percentile nationally.

How DEAN DALE SUD compares within TX

TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; DEAN DALE SUD carries 6, 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 DEAN DALE SUD is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 1995-03-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

DEAN DALE SUD'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:

• Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate

The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

DEAN DALE SUD'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 DEAN DALE SUD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,175th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.