SEMINOLE – At Monday night’s city council meeting, City Administrator Tommy Phillips updated the council on a Notice of Violation from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The notification sent to the City of Seminole stated that for the first quarter of 2021, the water supplied to city customers “has been determined to have violated the maximum contaminant level for arsenic.” The City purchases treated water from Southwest Water.” The first quarter of 2021, testing showed arsenic levels in the water to be 10.3 parts per billion (ppb), slightly over the maximum allowed at 10 ppb. A look at the three ...