KEMPNER WSC: EPA violation history, explained
KEMPNER WSC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,721 people through 5,909 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
KEMPNER WSC has 30 violations on record in total, 19 of thems health-based - ranking it 960th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 93th percentile nationally.
How KEMPNER WSC compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - KEMPNER WSC's 19 is above 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 KEMPNER WSC is from 2019-01-05 (health-based: 2018-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
KEMPNER WSC'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
KEMPNER WSC's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 19 health-based violations on file for KEMPNER WSC - 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.