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
Cameron County
cameron-county
Cameron 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)
93.74
Composite score
9
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#79
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Cameron County
Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.
Hydrology features
5 TWDB features
GULF_COAST · Nueces-Rio Grande · Rio Grande · South Laguna Madre
1 Major Aquifers · 2 Major River Basins · 2 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
6 impaired / 18 segments
33% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Bays and Estuaries, Gulf of Mexico+
Drinking-water exposure
54 SDWIS violations
6 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 6,969 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: TOWN OF INDIAN LAKE (26 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950
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
4 microbial violations
1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 4 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).
Top PWS: CITY OF RIO HONDO (4 viol.) · Latest: 2025-01-01
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
45 disinfectant violations
3 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 200 (Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule) violations — the same rule family that drives E2 disinfectant residual reporting.
Top PWS: TOWN OF INDIAN LAKE (26 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-10-01
Impaired surface segments in this county
- Port Isabel Fishing HarborBays and Estuaries · contact recreation
- San Martin LakesBays and Estuaries · contact recreation
- Arroyo Colorado Above TidalNueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin · contact recreation, fish consumption
- Drainage ditches flowing into Lower Laguna MadreBays and Estuaries · contact recreation
- Rio Grande Below Falcon ReservoirRio Grande Basin · contact recreation
- Unnamed Drainage Ditch Tributary (B) in Cameron County Drainage District #3Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal 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
0.44 · No change
Pressure score
6.67 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk
Interpretation
What changed and why
Cameron County is currently driven most by sales tax rates 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.
Sales tax rates
Rank #6 · 98.07 percentile
Value 167
19.61 pts into composite
20.92% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #13 · 95.37 percentile
Value 24955
19.07 pts into composite
20.34% of the current composite score from this lane.
Water districts
Rank #16 · 94.21 percentile
Value 34
18.84 pts into composite
20.10% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #19 · 93.05 percentile
Value 41
18.61 pts into composite
19.85% 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 SANTA ROSA
PWS TX0310009
Risk contribution 0.17
5 violations in the cached snapshot
TOWN OF INDIAN LAKE
PWS TX0310008
Risk contribution 0.16
26 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF RIO HONDO
PWS TX0310006
Risk contribution 0.12
5 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.
4 visible operators
VALLEY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO 2
2 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Cameron 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.
CITY OF PALM VALLEY
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Cameron 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.
LAGUNA MADRE WATER DISTRICT
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Cameron 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.
NEXTDECADE LNG LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Cameron 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 VALLEY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO 2 and CITY OF PALM VALLEY. 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.
Sales tax rates
Rank 6 · Value 167
CPI investigations
Rank 13 · Value 24955
Water districts
Rank 16 · Value 34
Permits
Rank 19 · Value 41
County returns
Rank 23 · Value 20528334.35
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.