Is HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26's water safe to drink?
HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,178 people through 5,506 service connections.
HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26 ranks 8,824th by violation burden (32th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
How HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26 compares within TX
HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26's 1 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26 is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1991-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26'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
Everything on this page is HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HARRIS COUNTY MUD 26 - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.