Is HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36's water safe to drink?
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 11,073, over 3,691 connections.
How this compares nationally
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36 has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,113th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36 compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36's 1 is at or below that. 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 WCID 36 is from 2012-01-06 (health-based: 2011-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36'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 HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HARRIS COUNTY WCID 36 - 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.