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 COMPANY3013% top
- 2Montgomery CountyTop · QUADVEST LP2417% top
- 3Fort Bend CountyTop · AMBER OAKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC225% top
- 4Collin CountyTop · SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY1911% top
- 5Harris CountyTop · EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT1817% top
- 6Liberty CountyTop · LH RANCH LTD1217% top
- 7Travis CountyTop · CITY OF ELGIN1010% top
- 8Ellis CountyTop · SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY933% top
- 9Hays CountyTop · BLIZEXAS LLC911% top
- 10Johnson CountyTop · CARROLL, JOHN911% top
- 1SOUTH CENTRAL WATER COMPANY11 counties19
- 2QUADVEST LP2 counties5
- 3UNDINE TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL LLC3 counties4
- 4EAST LAKE HOUSTON MANAGEMENT DISTRICT2 counties4
- 5PLATON INVESTMENTS LLC1 counties4
- 6DYNAMO VENTURES LLC1 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.