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Hockley County
hockley-county

Hockley 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)
61.17
Composite score
83
Composite rank
4
Highlight lanes
#72
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context

Weather + hydrology context for Hockley 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

OGALLALA · Brazos · Colorado · Red

1 Major Aquifers · 3 Major River Basins · 5 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units

Surface water condition
No segments cached

No TCEQ-classified surface segments in this county for the cached assessment year.

Drinking-water exposure
177 SDWIS violations

7 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 14,101 people served by those systems.

Top PWS: CITY OF SMYER (48 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 1025

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
1 microbial violations

1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 21 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).

Top PWS: CITY OF OPDYKE WEST (1 viol.) · Latest: 2024-06-01

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.

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
0.53 · No change
Pressure score
0 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
Lower pressure + high risk

Interpretation

What changed and why

Hockley County is currently driven most by sales tax rates in the county explorer stack, while the committed analytics lane classifies it as lower 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.

Lower pressure + high risk
Drinking-water risk is elevated relative to peers even though the county sits below the current statewide median on the pressure axis.
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 #22 · 91.89 percentile
Value 76
22.97 pts into composite
37.55% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #103 · 60.62 percentile
Value 1689
15.15 pts into composite
24.77% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #127 · 51.35 percentile
Value 6
12.84 pts into composite
20.99% of the current composite score from this lane.
County returns
Rank #129 · 50.58 percentile
Value 249674.71
12.64 pts into composite
20.66% 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 SMYER
PWS TX1100010
Risk contribution 0.19
48 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF ROPESVILLE
PWS TX1100004
Risk contribution 0.10
28 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF LEVELLAND
PWS TX1100002
Risk contribution 0.09
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.

0 visible operators
No operator grouping is visible for this county in the current permit and CID snapshot.

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.

This county currently has no grounded operator crosslink from the permit/CID dataset, so Atlas keeps the page anchored in county and permit context only.
  • • 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 22 · Value 76
CPI investigations
Rank 103 · Value 1689
Permits
Rank 127 · Value 6
County returns
Rank 129 · Value 249674.71

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.