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
Bell County
bell-county
Bell 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)
91.04
Composite score
18
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#101
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Bell 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 · Colorado
5 Major Aquifers · 4 Major River Basins · 3 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
5 impaired / 19 segments
26% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Brazos River Basin
Drinking-water exposure
23 SDWIS violations
9 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 17,478 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: CENTRAL TEXAS WSC (9 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 0300
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
9 microbial violations
1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 9 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).
Top PWS: CENTRAL TEXAS WSC (9 viol.) · Latest: 2023-09-01
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
7 disinfectant violations
2 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 200 (Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule) violations — the same rule family that drives E2 disinfectant residual reporting.
Top PWS: BELL MILAM FALLS WSC (4 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2024-10-01
Impaired surface segments in this county
- Little Nolan CreekBrazos River Basin · contact recreation
- Nolan Creek/ South Nolan CreekBrazos River Basin · contact recreation
- Unnamed tributary of Trimmier CreekBrazos River Basin · contact recreation
- Lampasas River Above Stillhouse Hollow LakeBrazos River Basin · contact recreation
- Long BranchBrazos 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
0.28 · No change
Pressure score
5.56 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk
Interpretation
What changed and why
Bell County is currently driven most by county returns 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.
County returns
Rank #4 · 98.84 percentile
Value 271001182.33
19.77 pts into composite
21.72% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #10 · 96.53 percentile
Value 30091
19.31 pts into composite
21.21% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #21 · 92.28 percentile
Value 39
18.46 pts into composite
20.28% of the current composite score from this lane.
Sales tax rates
Rank #28 · 89.58 percentile
Value 60
17.92 pts into composite
19.68% 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.
BELL MILAM FALLS WSC
PWS TX0140007
Risk contribution 0.19
4 violations in the cached snapshot
WEST BELL COUNTY WSC
PWS TX0140105
Risk contribution 0.03
1 violations in the cached snapshot
CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE KILLEEN
PWS TX0140174
Risk contribution 0.03
2 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 Bell 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.
SALADO CREEK LAND PARTNERS LLC;WILLIAMSON AND BELL COUNTIES MUD 1
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Bell 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 SALADO CREEK LAND PARTNERS LLC;WILLIAMSON AND BELL COUNTIES MUD 1. 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.
County returns
Rank 4 · Value 271001182.33
CPI investigations
Rank 10 · Value 30091
Permits
Rank 21 · Value 39
Sales tax rates
Rank 28 · Value 60
Water districts
Rank 29 · Value 16
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.