Active hazard footprint
0 active alerts
No NWS-driven alerts active in the cached water-summary feed. Drought + precipitation context land once those snapshots are committed.
No sewer overflow rows in the 30-day window.
County workspace
Austin County
austin-county
Austin County county intelligence
Cross-source county ranking context from the Atlas county explorer service, with committed Wave 1 analytics overlays to help answer what changed and why.
Saving to the shared watchlist workspace.
Common county terms
Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)Public Water System (PWS)
61.05
Composite score
84
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#118
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Austin County
Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.
Hydrology features
8 TWDB features
GULF_COAST · CARRIZO · Brazos · Brazos-Colorado
4 Major Aquifers · 4 Major River Basins · 2 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
1 impaired / 3 segments
33% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Brazos River Basin
Drinking-water exposure
9 SDWIS violations
7 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 7,028 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: CITY OF BELLVILLE (3 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 5200
Stream gauge coverage
0 active gauges
No active stream gauges in the cached water-summary feed. Hydrologic stress signal lands once gauges fold in.
USGS streamflow anomaly + drought class join in next-up.
Boil-water proxy · microbial rule
3 microbial violations
1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories.
Top PWS: CITY OF BELLVILLE (3 viol.) · Latest: 2023-08-19
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
No disinfectant violations cached
No cached SDWIS rule-group 200 disinfectant violations in this county. Treatment-stress signal activates as new D/DBP rule violations post.
Impaired surface segments in this county
- Mill CreekBrazos River Basin · contact recreation
Impairment is a legal-use-support classification, not a direct harm claim.
Analytics snapshot
Risk trend from committed snapshots
Uses the committed county-history artifact only. Atlas does not backfill imaginary periods; if a previous snapshot is missing, this panel says so.
Risk scorePressure score
Risk score
0.14 · No change
Pressure score
1.11 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk
Interpretation
What changed and why
Austin County is currently driven most by water districts in the county explorer stack, while the committed analytics lane classifies it as high pressure + high risk.
Across the latest two committed snapshots, both the county risk score and pressure score are unchanged, so the analytical read is about persistent position rather than a new spike. The county is steady across the latest committed comparison window.
High pressure + high risk
This county sits above the current statewide median on both the pressure and risk axes in the committed scatter snapshot.
Grounding and caveats
County analytics are derived from committed SDWIS, ACS county population, surface-water-quality, and TWDB hydrology snapshots. History appends one real snapshot per run and never fabricates prior periods.
- • countyRiskScore is the statewide 0-100 normalization of summed SDWIS DWRS raw scores per county.
- • pressureScore is the statewide 0-100 normalization of impaired segment counts per 100k residents when population is available; otherwise it falls back to raw impaired segment count.
- • Rank deltas compare the newest county-history snapshot against the immediately preceding real snapshot.
- • Both axes are normalized to a 0-100 statewide range for stable chart consumption.
Driver decomposition
Top explorer lanes ranked against the statewide county stack. Percentile and contribution values are derived from the reusable Wave 1 analytics spine.
Water districts
Rank #40 · 84.94 percentile
Value 9
16.99 pts into composite
27.83% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #48 · 81.85 percentile
Value 18
16.37 pts into composite
26.81% of the current composite score from this lane.
Sales tax rates
Rank #94 · 64.09 percentile
Value 15
12.82 pts into composite
21% of the current composite score from this lane.
County returns
Rank #116 · 55.60 percentile
Value 353565.91
11.12 pts into composite
18.21% of the current composite score from this lane.
Top systems behind the county signal
When county-history carries system-level highlights, Atlas surfaces the systems contributing the most to the latest committed risk snapshot.
CITY OF BELLVILLE
PWS TX0080001
Risk contribution 0.12
3 violations in the cached snapshot
AUSTIN COUNTY WSC 1
PWS TX0080040
Risk contribution 0.01
1 violations in the cached snapshot
AUSTIN COUNTY WSC 4
PWS TX0080043
Risk contribution 0
1 violations in the cached snapshot
Operator lane
Operators visible in this county snapshot
Ranked only from the current permittee and CID applicant snapshot. Atlas links out where operator presence is visible; it does not invent a deeper hierarchy or historical market share.
2 visible operators
SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY
2 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Austin County
Statewide footprint: 11 counties
Saving to the shared watchlist workspace.
Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
SEALY HORIZON LP
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Austin County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
Saving to the shared watchlist workspace.
Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
County ↔ operator navigation
Move from county stress to named operators
County rankings show where signal concentrates. Operator pages show which named permittees and applicants are currently visible inside that signal.
The strongest visible crosslinks here come from SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY and SEALY HORIZON LP. Use those pages to inspect county concentration, case posture, and permit roster.
- • County page: risk, hydrology, and statewide rank context.
- • Operator page: county footprint, open CID case posture, and pending permit roster.
- • Permit view: county-scoped transaction list for the current public snapshot.
Highlights
Top-ranked source lanes per the cached county overview.
Water districts
Rank 40 · Value 9
Permits
Rank 48 · Value 18
Sales tax rates
Rank 94 · Value 15
County returns
Rank 116 · Value 353565.91
CPI investigations
Rank 123 · Value 1329
Hydrology and surface-water condition fold into the investigation context block above; Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) + Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) features are shared with the water county profile.