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
Matagorda County
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Matagorda County water profile
County-level water context pulled from the Atlas Texas summary service. Use this as operating context, not a regulatory determination.
0
Active alerts
0
Stream gauges
0
Sewer overflows (30d)
0
General permits
Investigation context
Weather + hydrology context for Matagorda 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 · Brazos-Colorado · East Matagorda Bay
3 Major Aquifers · 1 Major River Basins · 1 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units
Surface water condition
7 impaired / 20 segments
35% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.
Basin: Bays and Estuaries, Brazos-Colorado Coastal Basin+
Drinking-water exposure
170 SDWIS violations
10 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 30,302 people served by those systems.
Top PWS: RIVER BEND WATER SERVICES (68 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
1 microbial violations
1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories.
Top PWS: CITY OF BAY CITY (1 viol.) · Latest: 2025-08-23
Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
129 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: RIVER BEND WATER SERVICES (68 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-10-01
Impaired surface segments in this county
- Matagorda Bay/Powderhorn Lake (Oyster Waters)Bays and Estuaries · oyster waters
- Tres Palacios Bay/Turtle Bay (Oyster Waters)Bays and Estuaries · oyster waters
- East Matagorda Bay (Oyster Waters)Bays and Estuaries · oyster waters
- Tres Palacios Creek TidalColorado-Lavaca Coastal Basin · aquatic life
- Caney Creek TidalBrazos-Colorado Coastal Basin · contact recreation
- Caney Creek Above TidalBrazos-Colorado Coastal Basin · aquatic life
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
- • 7 impaired segments without any cached USGS stream gauges — under-monitored surface water
- • 7 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.
- • LCRA monitoring metrics are basin-context enrichment and not the statewide regulatory source of truth.
- • NFHL political jurisdictions mapped: 5
- • Surface-water segments: 20 (7 impaired)
- • LCRA ARRP outfalls: 14
- • LCRA ARRP land permits: 1
- • LCRA quality sites: 5 total / 4 active / 2 impaired
- • Latest LCRA observation: 2025-10-29T00:00:00
- • Available LCRA parameters: 125
- • Top STORET: SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE,FIELD (UMHOS/CM @ 25C) (360), TEMPERATURE, WATER (DEGREES CENTIGRADE) (360), OXYGEN, DISSOLVED (MG/L) (359)