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Childress County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX075 · Childress County 8 sys · 249 viol · #2571/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 26.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2571/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Childress County ranks #2,571 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #181 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Childress County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 26.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #2,571 of 3,254 · #181 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Childress County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Bandera · near Caldwell · near Bee · highest 66.7% 86.7% 87.3% 87.5% 87.5% 87.8% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Childress 6,105 174 Detected
Rra Tell Cee Vee WS 534 13 Detected
Rra Northeast Childress 316 2 -
Rra Carey Northfield WS 183 23 -
Rra Garden Valley WS 125 0 -
Rra Kirkland Lazare WS 120 8 -
Rra Saied WS 68 17 -
Tdcj Water Hauler R V Facilities Maint 25 12 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Childress County

Cross-state counties nearest Childress County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (249). 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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