Is MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8's water safe to drink?
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,472 people get their water from it, across 1,824 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
6 total violations and 2 health-based ones put MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8 at the 47th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,790 of 12,903.
How MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8 compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8 is from 2024-02-07 (health-based: 2015-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8'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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8'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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUD 8's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,790th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.