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Edmunds County, South Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SD045 · Edmunds County 8 sys · 157 viol · #1627/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 21.7% health
  • RANK-MID #1627/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Edmunds County ranks #1,627 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #9 of 65 counties in South Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Edmunds 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 21.7% is health-based share in the middle 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 #1,627 of 3,254 · #9 of 65 in South Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Edmunds County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · lowest Edmunds · this county Brookings · near Buffalo · highest 50% 86.3% 87.5% 87.5% 91.7% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Web Water Development Association 20,750 8 Clean
Ipswich 928 26 -
Mina Lake Sanitary District 863 49 -
Bowdle 470 23 -
Roscoe 269 14 -
Hosmer 164 19 -
Deerfield Colony 150 18 -
Boulder Colony 26 0 -

Compare beyond South Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Edmunds County

Cross-state counties nearest Edmunds County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (157). 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).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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