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Wharton County
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Wharton 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)
57.61
Composite score
97
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#219
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context

Weather + hydrology context for Wharton 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 · 3 Major River Basins · 3 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units

Surface water condition
0 impaired / 3 segments

0% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.

Basin: Brazos-Colorado Coastal Basin, Lavaca River Basin

Drinking-water exposure
10 SDWIS violations

8 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 1,037 people served by those systems.

Top PWS: MUSTANG CREEK BAR B QUE (2 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
2 microbial violations

1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories.

Top PWS: MUSTANG CREEK BAR B QUE (2 viol.) · Latest: 2024-12-28

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

Interpretation

What changed and why

Wharton County is currently driven most by water districts in the county explorer stack, while the committed analytics lane classifies it as lower pressure + lower 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 + lower risk
Both axes sit below the current statewide medians 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.

Water districts
Rank #46 · 82.63 percentile
Value 8
16.53 pts into composite
28.69% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #60 · 77.22 percentile
Value 15
15.44 pts into composite
26.80% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #90 · 65.64 percentile
Value 2232
13.13 pts into composite
22.79% of the current composite score from this lane.
County returns
Rank #100 · 61.78 percentile
Value 488631.32
12.36 pts into composite
21.45% 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.

HUNGERFORD MUD 1
PWS TX2410052
Risk contribution 0.01
2 violations in the cached snapshot
BOLING ISD NEW GULF ELEMENTARY
PWS TX2410053
Risk contribution 0
1 violations in the cached snapshot
MUSTANG CREEK BAR B QUE
PWS TX2410049
Risk contribution 0
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
BOLING MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Wharton County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
NESH FARMS HUNGERFORD LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Wharton 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 BOLING MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT and NESH FARMS HUNGERFORD 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.

Water districts
Rank 46 · Value 8
Permits
Rank 60 · Value 15
CPI investigations
Rank 90 · Value 2232
County returns
Rank 100 · Value 488631.32
Sales tax rates
Rank 136 · 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.