County profile · EPA SDWIS + UCMR5
Bay County, Florida
36 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 208,775 people in Bay County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.
- 36
- SDWIS water systems Larger third of counties
- 660
- Total violations Lower third of counties
- 75.0%
- SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
- 12.5%
- UCMR5 PFAS rate (8 tested) Middle third of counties with tests
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.
Water Systems
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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.
Similar violation load
Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).
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