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Barnes County, North Dakota

9 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 12,391 people in Barnes County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

9
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
513
Total violations Lower third of counties
88.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet ND003 · Barnes County 9 sys · 513 viol · #2189/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-LOWER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 17.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2189/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +1.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 89%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: McKenzie County ( -1.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Barnes County ranks #2,189 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #12 of 52 counties in North Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Barnes County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 17.0% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,189 of 3,254 · #12 of 52 in North Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Barnes County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Morton · lowest Dickey · near Barnes · this county Slope · highest 61.5% 87.5% 87.5% 87.5% 88.9% 92.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Valley City City Of 6,585 27 Clean
Barnes Rural Water District 4,938 0 Clean
Wimbledon City Of 216 94 -
Sanborn City Of 192 71 -
Litchville City Of 172 107 -
Oriska City Of 118 71 -
Dazey City Of 78 86 -
Nome City Of 62 9 -
Sibley City Of 30 48 -

Compare beyond North Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Barnes County

Cross-state counties nearest Barnes County on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (513). 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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