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Brazos County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX041 · Brazos County 13 sys · 989 viol · #238/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 92.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 18.3% health
  • RANK-TOP #238/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 60.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 92%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: El Paso County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Brazos County ranks #238 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Brazos County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 92.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 18.3% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 60.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #238 of 3,254 · #20 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Brazos County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Brazos · this county Jim Wells · near Bee · highest 66.7% 92.1% 92.3% 92.3% 92.3% 92.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of College Station 104,103 0 Detected
City of Bryan 87,816 15 Clean
Texas A&m University Main Campus 61,000 55 Clean
Wellborn Sud 25,065 83 Detected
Wickson Creek Sud 15,000 30 Detected
Sanderson Farms Bryan Facility 1,400 14 -
Benchley Oaks Subdivision 567 85 -
Ramblewood Mobile Home Park 350 167 -
Lakewood Estates 202 81 -
Wheelock Express 156 53 -
Smetana Forest 150 224 -
Carousel Mobile Home Park 56 113 -
AL Leonard Ranch 31 69 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Brazos County

Cross-state counties nearest Brazos County on flagged-system share (92.3%) and cumulative violation count (989). 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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