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Bay County, Florida

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet FL005 · Bay County 36 sys · 660 viol · #327/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-LOW · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.0% health
  • RANK-TOP #327/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 2.4 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-LOW 12.5% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 78%
  • SYS-SMALL 36 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Gilchrist County (+ 2.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Bay County ranks #327 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #29 of 67 counties in Florida. See methodology · corpus placement.

Bay County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 28.0% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 12.5% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #327 of 3,254 · #29 of 67 in Florida.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Bay County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Dixie · lowest Gilchrist · near Clay · near Monroe · highest 66.7% 75% 77.4% 80% 81% 81.8% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Panama City Beach City Of 67,205 60 Clean
Bay County Water System 40,848 32 Clean
Panama City Water System 36,139 19 Clean
Lynn Haven, City of Water System 23,380 22 Clean
Callaway, City of Water System 20,520 16 Clean
Springfield, City Of 8,075 133 Clean
Mexico Beach, City Of 5,888 78 Detected
Parker, City of Water System 4,317 34 Clean
Waller Elementary School 525 23 -
Express Lane #209 - Southport 525 7 -
Dollar General #15344 (Fountain) 258 3 -
Panama City Racquet Club 107 42 -
M ; M Market #3 100 3 -
Garner's Supermarket 100 1 -
Pancare Community Health Center 71 0 -
Deer Haven Park 68 39 -
One Stop Shop #2 50 1 -
Faithful Foundations Academy(prec Mem 2) 50 2 -
Calvary Christian Church 50 1 -
Stacey's Swingers Day Care 49 4 -
Dollar General #15492 (Southport) 46 0 -
Pine Lake RV Park 45 11 -
Creekside Estates Pc, LLC 30 80 -
Always Stop, LLC 29 29 -
Lansing Smith Electric Generating Plant 25 6 -
Lisenby Food Mart 25 0 -
Mr. Mart #13 25 1 -
231 Plaza 25 1 -
Everyday Grocer Inc. (Chiodos 231) 25 0 -
Quick Stop #8 25 1 -
Fountain Youngstown Recreation Complex 25 0 -
Bear Creek Assembly of God 25 11 -
Bucks Piggly Wiggly Express 25 0 -
First Stop Southern Express 25 0 -
Westco L;w Pcb, LLC 25 0 -
Dollar General Youngstown 25 0 -

Compare beyond Florida

Lower-flagged peers for Bay County

Cross-state counties nearest Bay County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (660). 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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