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# New TCEQ Notices of Violation at Texas Sites: 2026 statistics from 1,403 public records

**The most common program is Drinking water / public water system: 482 of 1,403 records (34.4%) (as of 2026-10-28; source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov)).**

Data as of 2026-10-28 · Compiled by Zalwin from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov) Copy citation

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## Key findings

- Zalwin's TxEnvironmentalViolationPulse dataset holds 1,403 TxEnvironmentalViolationPulse records dated 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-29 (as of 2026-10-28; source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov)). [#](#finding-1)
- The most common program is Drinking water / public water system: 482 of 1,403 records (34.4%) (as of 2026-10-28; source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov)). [#](#finding-2)
- Across 1,403 records with a stated violations, the total is 4,587 and the median is 2; the largest is 54 (Blanchard Refining Galveston Bay Refinery) (as of 2026-10-28; source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov)). [#](#finding-3)
- The top 10% of records by violations (140 of 1,403) account for 38.7% of the total (as of 2026-10-28; source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov)). [#](#finding-4)

## TxEnvironmentalViolationPulse records by program

| Group | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Drinking water / public water system | 482 | 34.4% |
| Wastewater and stormwater | 316 | 22.5% |
| Air | 245 | 17.5% |
| Petroleum storage tanks | 203 | 14.5% |
| Solid, used-oil and hazardous waste | 99 | 7.1% |
| Other program | 44 | 3.1% |
| Aggregate production (quarries, pits) | 14 | 1.0% |

## Methodology and data provenance

- Sample: 1,403 public records dated 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-29; illustrative samples excluded.

- Source: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Notices of Violation (data.texas.gov). Refreshed automatically about every 168 hours; figures above are as of 2026-10-28.

- Shares are of all records in the dataset; totals and medians use only records with a stated violations.

- Organization-level data only. Informational; verify individual records at the official source.

### Cite this study

Zalwin Research, "TxEnvironmentalViolationPulse statistics" (data as of 2026-10-28), https://zalwin.com/research/txenvironmentalviolationpulse

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