Is MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY's water safe to drink?
MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,612, over 1,223 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY ranks 8,490th by violation burden (34th percentile) - 7 violations total, 1 health-based.
How MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1993-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY'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)
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
Everything on this page is MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for MITCHELL COUNTY UTILITY - 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.