Is LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,826 people through 5,942 service connections.
How this compares nationally
8 total violations and 2 health-based ones put LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY at the 49th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,640 of 12,903.
Against the TX average
LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY's 2 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
LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-06-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2003-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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 LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY's record does not cover
LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY'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. Between the utility's meter and LAKE CITIES MUNICIPAL UTILITY AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,640th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.