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Baltimore city, Maryland

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MD510 · Baltimore city 13 sys · 122 viol · #28/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 38.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 18.0% health
  • RANK-TOP #28/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 21.5 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dorchester County (+ 21.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Baltimore city ranks #28 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #2 of 24 counties in Maryland. See methodology · corpus placement.

Baltimore city standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 38.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 18.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #28 of 3,254 · #2 of 24 in Maryland.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Baltimore city

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Baltimore city · this county · lowest Garrett · near 38.5% 60% 60.1% 63.7% 71.4% 96.6%

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

Water Systems

Compare beyond Maryland

Lower-flagged peers for Baltimore city

Cross-state counties nearest Baltimore city on flagged-system share (38.5%) and cumulative violation count (122). 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).

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

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