GRAY UTILITY SERVICE: EPA violation history, explained
GRAY UTILITY SERVICE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,004 people through 2,668 service connections.
How this compares nationally
GRAY UTILITY SERVICE has 29 violations on record in total, 10 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,944th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 85th percentile nationally.
How GRAY UTILITY SERVICE compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; GRAY UTILITY SERVICE carries 10, 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 GRAY UTILITY SERVICE is from 2011-01-10 (health-based: 2008-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GRAY UTILITY SERVICE'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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what GRAY UTILITY SERVICE 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 GRAY UTILITY SERVICE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,944th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.