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Orange County
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Orange 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)
66.89
Composite score
65
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#11
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context

Weather + hydrology context for Orange 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 · Neches · Neches-Trinity

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

Surface water condition
13 impaired / 21 segments

62% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.

Basin: Bays and Estuaries, Neches River Basin+

Drinking-water exposure
240 SDWIS violations

10 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 45,399 people served by those systems.

Top PWS: CITY OF ROSE CITY (133 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
76 microbial violations

1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 76 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).

Top PWS: CITY OF ROSE CITY (76 viol.) · Latest: 2025-11-01

Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
140 disinfectant violations

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

Top PWS: CITY OF ROSE CITY (57 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-10-01

Impaired surface segments in this county
  • Little Cypress Bayou
    Sabine River Basin · aquatic life, contact recreation
  • Cow Bayou Above Tidal
    Sabine River Basin · aquatic life
  • Cole Creek
    Sabine River Basin · aquatic life
  • Hudson Gully
    Sabine River Basin · aquatic life, contact recreation
  • Terry Gully
    Sabine River Basin · contact recreation
  • Neches River Below B. A. Steinhagen Lake
    Neches River Basin · 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
5.20 · No change
Pressure score
14.44 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk

Interpretation

What changed and why

Orange County is currently driven most by permits 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.

Permits
Rank #30 · 88.80 percentile
Value 28
17.76 pts into composite
26.55% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #46 · 82.63 percentile
Value 6257
16.53 pts into composite
24.71% of the current composite score from this lane.
Water districts
Rank #59 · 77.61 percentile
Value 5
15.52 pts into composite
23.20% of the current composite score from this lane.
County returns
Rank #65 · 75.29 percentile
Value 1791695.65
15.06 pts into composite
22.51% 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.

ORANGE COUNTY WCID 1
PWS TX1810005
Risk contribution 4.29
36 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF ROSE CITY
PWS TX1810139
Risk contribution 0.77
133 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF ORANGE
PWS TX1810004
Risk contribution 0.14
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.

1 visible operators
CHEM32 LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Orange 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 CHEM32 LLC. 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.

Permits
Rank 30 · Value 28
CPI investigations
Rank 46 · Value 6257
Water districts
Rank 59 · Value 5
County returns
Rank 65 · Value 1791695.65
Sales tax rates
Rank 122 · Value 15

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.