Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID TX0270042
What's in Austin, TX tap water
Every one of the 11 core regulated contaminants reported for Austin, TX came in below its federal limit.
- !1 open monitoring or reporting violation
- !11 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 16 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −3 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −2 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −13 core regulated contaminants never reported (11/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →+17 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Chloramine | 2.3 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| TTHM | 45.5 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| HAA5 | 15.6 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Cyanide | 50 ug/L | 200 ug/L |
| Fluoride | 0.66 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Turbidity | 0.04 NTU | 1 NTU |
| Lead | 0.000594 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L |
| Simazine | 0.03 ug/L | 4 ug/L |
| Barium | 0.012 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Nitrate | 0.05 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.003 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Bromodichloromethane | 13.7 ug/L | — |
| Bromoform | 1.7 ug/L | — |
| Chloroform | 14.1 ug/L | — |
| Dibromochloromethane | 10.3 ug/L | — |
| TOC | 1.27 | — |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | 4.5 pCi/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
16 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Austin, TX's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Austin, TX's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 3 sources.
Source
- 1 - SH 29 / FRONT OF SUBDIV
- 2 - BACK OF SUBDIV
- 3 - WHISPERING OAKS RD / BACK OF SUBDIV
Treatment
- PLANT 1 - 105 BURNET HILL DR
- PLANT 2 - 105 BURNET HILL DR
- 3 - WISPERING OAKS RD
Distribution
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based3 violations on record · most recent Apr 2008resolved
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Oct 2024resolved
- Other1 violation on record · most recent Sep 20221 open
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗