DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in NUECES COUNTY WCID 3's water?

NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 14,000 people get their water from it, across 5,166 connections.

How this compares nationally

NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 has 30 violations on record in total, 22 of thems health-based - ranking it 820th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.

How NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 compares within TX

TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 carries 22, 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 NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 is from 2027-01-04 (health-based: 2026-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

NUECES COUNTY WCID 3'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:

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

This is what NUECES COUNTY WCID 3 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. Between the utility's meter and NUECES COUNTY WCID 3's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 820th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.