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Baxter County, Arkansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet AR005 · Baxter County 55 sys · 2,535 viol · #1130/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 94.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 13.8% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1130/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 82%
  • SYS-MID 55 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Polk County ( -0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Baxter County ranks #1,130 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 75 counties in Arkansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Baxter County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 94.5% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 13.8% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,130 of 3,254 · #20 of 75 in Arkansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Baxter County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Pulaski · lowest Polk · near Sebastian · near Madison · highest 74.2% 93.3% 94.1% 94.5% 95.2% 95.8% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Mountain Home Waterworks 19,618 13 Clean
North East Public Water Auth 4,690 8 Clean
Lakeview-Midway Public Water Authority 4,383 20 Detected
Gassville Waterworks 2,040 9 -
Brunner Hill Water Assoc 1,265 10 -
Cotter Waterworks 1,233 23 -
Norfork Waterworks 918 12 -
Salesville Community Water Association 715 16 Clean
Gaston S White River Resort 550 43 -
Big Flat Waterworks 523 24 -
Briarcliff Waterworks 338 4 -
Edgewood Bay Water 308 5 -
Uscoe Nfwp12 Robinson Point 306 11 -
Uscoe Nfwp29 Gamaliel 192 22 -
Russell's RV 175 37 -
Uscoe Nfwp25 Bidwell Point 144 10 -
Shady Oak RV Park 124 0 -
Uscoe Nfwp18 Henderson 114 11 -
Uscoe Nf Howard Cove 100 146 -
Roost Your Wheels 100 124 -
Laurelwood Homeowners Association 90 127 -
Howard Cove RV 88 19 -
Anchors Landing at Wood Point RV Park 72 1 -
Autumn Acres MHP 68 37 -
Starlight Estates 67 8 -
Uscoe Nfwp15 Panther Bay 66 7 -
Uscoe Nf Panther Bay (Davids's Trail) 66 15 -
Jennings Enterprises 50 38 -
Blue Lady Resort 45 39 -
Crestwood Mobile Home Park 34 7 -
General Water Conditioning 30 286 -
Glacier Sf2752 30 2 -
Culligan Water Conditioning 30 87 -
Primo Refill Harp's 135 Mountain Home 30 42 -
Primo Refill Wmsc0011 Mt Home 30 55 -
24 Hour Fuel 1013 30 34 -
R&r Country Store 25 54 -
Peace Retreat 25 46 -
Norfork Marina 25 67 -
Live Edge Bar & Grill 25 67 -
101 Grocery 25 36 -
Dollar General Store 21210 25 0 -
Dollar General Store 22097 25 0 -
Bayou Resort 25 30 -
Fish Fiddle Resort 25 57 -
Holiday Hills Resort 25 70 -
Keller S Kove Resort 25 46 -
Lake Norfork Hotel 25 132 -
Moose Lodge 1953 25 49 -
Rocking Chair Ranch 25 97 -

Compare beyond Arkansas

Mid-flagged peers for Baxter County

Cross-state counties nearest Baxter County on flagged-system share (94.5%) and cumulative violation count (2,535). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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