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Adams County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS001 · Adams County 8 sys · 2,696 viol · #1284/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.4% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1284/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.7 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Leflore County (+ 0.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Adams County ranks #1,284 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #29 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Adams County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.4% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,284 of 3,254 · #29 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Adams County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Adams County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Leflore · near Lincoln · near Issaquena · highest 75.9% 87.5% 88.2% 89.5% 90% 90% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Natchez 14,520 110 Clean
Adams Co W/a #2-South 8,097 1,038 Clean
Adams Co W/a #4-Kaiser Lake 8,078 713 Clean
Broadmoor Utilities, Inc 1,185 284 Detected
Oakland Water Works 750 533 -
Sandy Creek Water Works, LLC 96 15 -
Natchez State Park-B 58 0 -
Natchez State Park Campground 42 3 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Lower-flagged peers for Adams County

Cross-state counties nearest Adams County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (2,696). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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