County drinking water records
Cameron County, TX drinking water systems
20 community water systems serve Cameron County, TX, reporting 437,276 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.
12 of them (60%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 7 systems still have one unresolved.
1 relies mainly on groundwater and 19 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.
18 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 0 lead lines, 7 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 30,530 lines of unknown material.
1 more system is placed in Cameron County, TX by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.
- Community water systems
- 20
- People served, sum of each system's own figure
- 437,276
- Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
- 12
- Systems with one unresolved
- 7
- Lead service lines in inventories
- 0
Water systems serving Cameron County
20 systemsPeople served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.
| System | Serves | People served | Main source | Health-based violations, 10 years | Unresolved | Lead lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | Brownsville and Cameron Park | 201,249 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harlingen Water Works System | Harlingen, Arroyo Colorado Estates and 2 more | 85,900 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laguna Madre Water District | Laguna Vista, South Padre Island and 2 more | 46,674 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Rio Hondo WSC | Brownsville, La Tina Ranch and 9 more and land outside them | 24,756 | Surface water | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| City of San Benito | San Benito and Brownsville | 24,250 | Surface water | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| El Jardin WSC | Brownsville, South Point and 2 more and land outside them | 9,423 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Olmito WSC | Brownsville, Los Fresnos and 1 more | 8,952 | Surface water | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| City of La Feria | La Feria | 7,226 | Surface water | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| City of Los Fresnos | Los Fresnos and Brownsville | 6,009 | Surface water | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Primera | Primera | 5,811 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Valley MUD 2 Rancho Viejo | Brownsville and Rancho Viejo | 3,644 | Surface water | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| City of Combes | Combes | 2,895 | Purchased surface water | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| City of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa and Tierra Bonita and land outside them | 2,883 | Surface water | 5 | 10 | No inventory |
| City of Rio Hondo | Rio Hondo | 2,640 | Surface water | 47 | 5 | No inventory |
| East Rio Hondo WSC Arroyo City | Outside cities and towns | 1,953 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Palm Valley | Palm Valley | 1,310 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Town of Indian Lake | Indian Lake | 888 | Purchased surface water | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Carefree Valley Resort | Combes | 600 | Purchased surface water | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Military Hwy WSC Del Mar Heights | Del Mar Heights and land outside it | 213 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Southmost Regional Water Authority | Outside cities and towns | Not reported | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Systems placed by county record in Cameron County
1 systemEPA has no service area map for this system. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.
| System | Serves | People served | Main source | Health-based violations, 10 years | Unresolved | Lead lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starbase Water System | County on record | 743 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cities and towns in Cameron County
35 places- Arroyo Colorado Estates1 system
- Arroyo Gardens1 system
- Bayview1 system
- Brownsville7 systems
- Cameron Park1 system
- Chula Vista1 system
- Combes2 systems
- Del Mar Heights1 system
- Green Valley Farms1 system
- Harlingen1 system
- Indian Lake1 system
- Juarez1 system
- La Feria1 system
- Laguna Heights1 system
- Laguna Vista1 system
- Lasana1 system
- Las Palmas II1 system
- La Tina Ranch1 system
- Laureles1 system
- Los Fresnos2 systems
- Lozano1 system
- Olmito1 system
- Palm Valley1 system
- Port Isabel1 system
- Primera1 system
- Rancho Viejo1 system
- Reid Hope King1 system
- Rio Hondo2 systems
- San Benito1 system
- Santa Rosa1 system
- South Padre Island1 system
- South Point1 system
- Tierra Bonita1 system
- Villa del Sol1 system
- Villa Pancho1 system
Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations