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.
County workspace
Galveston County
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Galveston County water profile
County-level water context pulled from the Atlas Texas summary service. Use this as operating context, not a regulatory determination.
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Active alerts
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Stream gauges
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Sewer overflows (30d)
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General permits
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Galveston County
Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.
Hydrology features
4 TWDB features
GULF_COAST · CARRIZO · San Jacinto-Brazos · West Galveston Bay
4 Major Aquifers · 1 Major River Basins · 1 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
35 impaired / 47 segments
74% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Bays and Estuaries, Gulf of Mexico+
Drinking-water exposure
33 SDWIS violations
11 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 67,767 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: GALVESTON COUNTY WCID 19 (13 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
4 microbial violations
2 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 3 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).
Top PWS: CITY OF TEXAS CITY (3 viol.) · Latest: 2025-02-08
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
18 disinfectant violations
2 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 200 (Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule) violations — the same rule family that drives E2 disinfectant residual reporting.
Top PWS: GALVESTON COUNTY WCID 19 (13 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-04-01
Impaired surface segments in this county
- East BayBays and Estuaries · fish consumption
- East Bay (Oyster Waters)Bays and Estuaries · oyster waters
- West BayBays and Estuaries · fish consumption
- Lake MadelineBays and Estuaries · aquatic life, fish consumption
- Offatts BayouBays and Estuaries · fish consumption
- Moses LakeBays and Estuaries · fish consumption
Impairment is a legal-use-support classification, not a direct harm claim.
Mismatch signals
Score: 56
- • surface-water impairment is present with no active hazard alerts in the cached feed
- • 35 impaired segments without any cached USGS stream gauges — under-monitored surface water
- • 35 impaired segments without any cached active permit pressure — enforcement gap candidate
Active alerts
No active alerts.
Stream gauges
No gauges loaded.
Notes
- • Nearby surface-water impairment context is additive only; it is not a standalone verdict on county-wide harm.
- • NFHL political jurisdictions mapped: 32
- • Surface-water segments: 47 (35 impaired)