Is HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89's water safe to drink?
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,033 people get their water from it, across 3,012 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 has 10 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,744th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 71th percentile nationally.
How HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 carries 5, not more than typical for the state. 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 89 is from 2016-01-02 (health-based: 2007-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 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 - 5 health-based violations on file for HARRIS COUNTY WCID 89 - 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.