Is NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 116,477 people get their water from it, across 50,340 connections.
How this compares nationally
NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES has 7 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,685th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 48th percentile nationally.
How NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES compares within TX
NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES's 2 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES is from 2024-01-09 (health-based: 1996-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES'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
This is what NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES 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 - 2 health-based violations on file for NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES - 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.