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.
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Houston 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)
0
General permits
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Houston County
Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.
Hydrology features
7 TWDB features
CARRIZO · CARRIZO · Neches · Sabine
3 Major Aquifers · 3 Major River Basins · 2 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
1 impaired / 1 segments
100% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Neches River Basin
Drinking-water exposure
86 SDWIS violations
5 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 16,627 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: HOUSTON COUNTY WCID 1 (53 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
23 microbial violations
1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 23 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).
Top PWS: HOUSTON COUNTY WCID 1 (23 viol.) · Latest: 2024-05-01
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
60 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: HOUSTON COUNTY WCID 1 (30 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-01-01
Impaired surface segments in this county
- Lake RatcliffNeches River Basin · fish consumption
Impairment is a legal-use-support classification, not a direct harm claim.
Mismatch signals
Score: 18
- • surface-water impairment is present with no active hazard alerts in the cached feed
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: 10
- • Surface-water segments: 1 (1 impaired)