Where Texas water-permit pressure concentrates.
Pending Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) water-quality individual permits aggregated to county footprints, with the top single-operator share per county exposed as a concentration indicator. Drill into any county to inspect the filtered permit roster.
Operator concentration choropleth
Toggle between raw permit count and top-operator share. High top-operator share signals concentrated permit pressure on a single applicant inside a county.
Number of pending TCEQ water-quality individual permits per county.
- 0
- 1
- 2-3
- 4-7
- 8+
- No data
- •Flip between metric modes to see which counties stay bright across unrelated burdens versus which only flare in one layer.
- •Use overlays to isolate counties where the highlighted pattern may explain why a metric spikes or refuses to move.
- •Check the top list for repeat names, then trace whether they cluster geographically or break the regional pattern.
Pending status is procedural context, not proof of harm or permit outcome. Operator names are public-record permittee strings; minor formatting differences are not normalized into a canonical operator graph here.
- 1Williamson CountyTop · SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY3415% top
- 2Montgomery CountyTop · QUADVEST LP2715% top
- 3Fort Bend CountyTop · AMBER OAKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC254% top
- 4Harris CountyTop · EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT2214% top
- 5Collin CountyTop · CADDO VAN ALSTYNE LLC176% top
- 6Waller CountyTop · CLEAR CREEK RESERVE LLC157% top
- 7Liberty CountyTop · LH RANCH LTD1217% top
- 8Hays CountyTop · BLIZEXAS LLC1010% top
- 9Johnson CountyTop · CARROLL, JOHN911% top
- 10Travis CountyTop · CITY OF ELGIN911% top
- 1SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY12 counties20
- 2UNDINE TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL LLC5 counties7
- 3QUADVEST LP3 counties7
- 4EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT2 counties4
- 5DYNAMO VENTURES LLC1 counties2
- 6UTILITIES INC OF TEXAS2 counties2
- 7LAJITAS MUNICIPAL SERVICES COMPANY LLC1 counties2
- 8VALLEY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO 21 counties2
Counts include all pending permits in the current cache — not just those visible in any single county view.
- CID procedural overlayHatch counties carrying open CID cases per the existing /permits choropleth pattern.
- Operator name canonicalizationMerge minor formatting variations into stable operator graph nodes via the operator-intelligence builder.
- Repeat-pressure flagHighlight operators with both pending permits and CID cases in the same county window.
- Operator drill-in tooltipClick the choropleth to surface the operator roster panel without leaving the map.