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Harris County
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Harris 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.

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Common county terms
Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)Public Water System (PWS)
95.75
Composite score
4
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#1
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context

Weather + hydrology context for Harris County

Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.

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.

Hydrology features
8 TWDB features

GULF_COAST · CARRIZO · Brazos · Brazos-Colorado

4 Major Aquifers · 4 Major River Basins · 3 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units

Surface water condition
90 impaired / 111 segments

81% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.

Basin: Bays and Estuaries, San Jacinto River Basin+

Drinking-water exposure
484 SDWIS violations

253 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 2,345,070 people served by those systems.

Top PWS: GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (77 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
59 microbial violations

15 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 12 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).

Top PWS: GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (35 viol.) · Latest: 2025-11-01

Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
63 disinfectant violations

6 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 200 (Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule) violations — the same rule family that drives E2 disinfectant residual reporting.

Top PWS: GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (42 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2456 · Latest: 2025-01-01

Impaired surface segments in this county
  • Bear Lake
    San Jacinto River Basin · fish consumption
  • Lake Isabell
    San Jacinto River Basin · fish consumption
  • Scott Bay
    Bays and Estuaries · fish consumption
  • Burnet Bay
    Bays and Estuaries · fish consumption
  • Crystal Bay
    Bays and Estuaries · fish consumption
  • Upper Galveston Bay
    Bays and Estuaries · fish consumption

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.

Updated 2026-05-09 22:08:46Z
Risk scorePressure score
05-09 22:05Z05-09 22:08Z
Risk score
100 · No change
Pressure score
100 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk

Interpretation

What changed and why

Harris 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 #1 · 100 percentile
Value 592102080.18
20 pts into composite
20.89% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #1 · 100 percentile
Value 237431
20 pts into composite
20.89% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #1 · 100 percentile
Value 680
20 pts into composite
20.89% of the current composite score from this lane.
Water districts
Rank #1 · 100 percentile
Value 640
20 pts into composite
20.89% 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 HOUSTON
PWS TX1010013
Risk contribution 100
2 violations in the cached snapshot
TRAIL OF THE LAKES MUD
PWS TX1010617
Risk contribution 1.79
26 violations in the cached snapshot
MISSION BEND MUD 2
PWS TX1011826
Risk contribution 0.31
4 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.

5 visible operators
QUADVEST LP
3 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Harris County
Statewide footprint: 3 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
2 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Harris County
Statewide footprint: 2 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
BISSONNET 136 LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Harris County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
E STREET CAPITAL LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Harris County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
EAST HOUSTON UTILITIES INC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Harris County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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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 QUADVEST LP and EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. 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 1 · Value 592102080.18
CPI investigations
Rank 1 · Value 237431
Permits
Rank 1 · Value 680
Water districts
Rank 1 · Value 640
Sales tax rates
Rank 32 · Value 60

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.