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Emmet County, Iowa

11 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 7,892 people in Emmet County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

11
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
477
Total violations Lower third of counties
90.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IA063 · Emmet County 11 sys · 477 viol · #2529/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.7% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2529/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Emmet County ranks #2,529 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #73 of 99 counties in Iowa. See methodology · corpus placement.

Emmet County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.7% 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 #2,529 of 3,254 · #73 of 99 in Iowa.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Emmet County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahaska · lowest Henry · near Benton · near Ringgold · highest 75% 90.9% 90.9% 91.6% 91.7% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Emmet County

Cross-state counties nearest Emmet County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (477). 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.

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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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