Is TEMPLE's water safe to drink?

TEMPLE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,708 people through 2,600 service connections.

TEMPLE's record against the rest of the country

28 total violations and 3 health-based ones put TEMPLE at the 62th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,948 of 12,903.

Against the GA average

Among the 312 GA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - TEMPLE's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

TEMPLE's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.

The concern categories on record

TEMPLE'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 TEMPLE's record does not cover

TEMPLE'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 TEMPLE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,948th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.