Is LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 275,041 people through 158,793 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM has 6 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,520th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.
How LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM carries 1, 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 LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 1982-04-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM'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
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
Everything on this page is LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 6 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.