DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229's water?

FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229 has no violations on record in EPA's SDWIS data. 3,666 people get their water from it, across 942 connections.

How this compares nationally

0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229 at the 1th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,801 of 12,903.

Against the TX average

Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229's 0 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Why "no violations" needs a caveat here

FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229 serves 3,666 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.

What FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229's record does not cover

This is what FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229 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 FORT BEND COUNTY MUD 229's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,801th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.