County drinking water records
Karnes County, TX drinking water systems
5 community water systems serve Karnes County, TX, reporting 19,007 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.
5 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 2 systems still have one unresolved.
5 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.
3 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 0 lead lines, 13 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,938 lines of unknown material.
- Community water systems
- 5
- People served, sum of each system's own figure
- 19,007
- Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
- 5
- Systems with one unresolved
- 2
- Lead service lines in inventories
- 0
Water systems serving Karnes County
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Kenedy | Kenedy | 6,454 | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| El Oso WSC | Karnes City and land outside it | 6,288 | Groundwater | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Karnes City | Karnes City | 4,269 | Groundwater | 2 | 5 | No inventory |
| City of Runge | Runge | 1,482 | Groundwater | 1 | 4 | No inventory |
| City of Falls City | Falls City | 514 | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cities and towns in Karnes County
4 places- Falls City1 system
- Karnes City2 systems
- Kenedy1 system
- Runge1 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