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Calhoun County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS013 · Calhoun County 17 sys · 9,392 viol · #1844/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1844/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Calhoun County ranks #1,844 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #53 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Calhoun County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 0.8% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,844 of 3,254 · #53 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Calhoun County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Issaquena · highest Rankin · near Forrest · near 75.9% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Bruce 2,798 802 -
Mt Comfort W/A-Banner 2,442 549 -
City of Calhoun City 2,101 978 -
Town of Vardaman 1,610 519 -
Cross-Roads Water Association 1,125 1,080 -
Mt Comfort W/A 1,085 267 -
Town of Pittsboro 1,077 584 -
Mt Comfort W/a-Mt Moriah 1,011 265 -
Town of Derma 957 660 Clean
Big Creek Water Association 731 543 -
Poplar Springs W/a #1 645 543 -
Poplar Springs W/a #2 627 282 -
Mt Comfort W/A-Sarepta 599 265 -
Macedonia Water Association 528 405 -
New Liberty Water Association 420 576 -
Duncan Hill Water Supply 370 530 Clean
Slate Springs Water Assn 351 544 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Calhoun County

Cross-state counties nearest Calhoun County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (9,392). 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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