Is MACBEE SUD's water safe to drink?

MACBEE SUD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 7,548 people get their water from it, across 2,598 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

MACBEE SUD has 12 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,709th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 71th percentile nationally.

How MACBEE SUD compares within TX

Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - MACBEE SUD's 5 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 MACBEE SUD is from 2016-06-12 (health-based: 2013-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

MACBEE SUD'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: 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 MACBEE SUD 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 MACBEE SUD - 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.