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TCEQ tells systems to coordinate with labs for CMDP transition; QAPP revisions set November 2025 deadline
Summary
TCEQ staff said laboratories and public water systems must transition to the new Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP) and that a revised Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) will require all routine compliance data be reported through CMDP by November 2025.
Jessica Hoke, quality assurance specialist for the Public Water System Supervision Program, told GWAG that the biggest operational change systems will feel in the coming year is the transition of laboratory reporting into TCEQ's Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP).
"By November of 2025, we won't have any other options," Hoke said, urging public water systems to coordinate with their laboratories now so labs can complete their CMDP registration and testing and avoid compliance impacts for systems whose labs cannot report through the portal.
The nut graf: TCEQ plans to require reporting of routine compliance data (for example, bacteriological results, lead-and-copper and other chemical parameters) through CMDP by November 2025 as part of a QAPP revision. Public water systems are the operational party most affected if their contracted labs fail to transition; TCEQ is holding lab meetings and has a contractor to help labs move to CMDP during the current fiscal year.
Hoke explained that laboratories must be able to report results through CMDP for TCEQ to accept compliance monitoring data after the QAPP revision is in effect. TCEQ is running lab meetings and a survey to assess labs' transition status. The agency said it will send a letter to all water systems and plans additional outreach: a lab meeting was scheduled for the week following the GWAG meeting and an invite and guidance materials will be posted to the Public Water System Supervision Program web page. Systems should ask their labs what stage of registration and testing they have reached for CMDP and let TCEQ know if they need help.
Ending: TCEQ reiterated that it will provide technical assistance and an interim alternative reporting mechanism where possible during the transition period, but emphasized that systems should treat the CMDP deadline as firm to avoid future compliance problems.
