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Cotton County, Oklahoma

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet OK033 · Cotton County 5 sys · 1,512 viol · #2598/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 66.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2598/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 80%
  • SYS-TINY 5 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cotton County ranks #2,598 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #63 of 77 counties in Oklahoma. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cotton 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 66.6% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,598 of 3,254 · #63 of 77 in Oklahoma.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cotton County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Murray · lowest Cimarron · highest Payne · near Canadian · near 88.9% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Cotton Co RWD #2 3,000 234 -
Walters Public Works Authority 2,551 355 -
Temple 1,146 465 -
Randlett PWA 320 145 Clean
Devol 150 313 -

Compare beyond Oklahoma

Mid-flagged peers for Cotton County

Cross-state counties nearest Cotton County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,512). 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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