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Forrest County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS035 · Forrest County 16 sys · 9,982 viol · #627/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #627/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 14.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 16 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, Forrest County ranks #627 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #7 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Forrest 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 0.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 14.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #627 of 3,254 · #7 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Forrest County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Issaquena · highest Rankin · near Lee · 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 Hattiesburg 43,449 811 Clean
City of Petal 9,509 947 Clean
Barrontown W/A 7,999 1,414 Clean
Sunrise Utility Assn Inc 6,067 1,000 Detected
Dixie Community Utility Assn. 5,840 784 Clean
Glendale Utility District 4,477 736 Clean
Rawls Springs Utility District 3,168 1,078 -
Eastabuchie Water Association 2,363 722 -
Brooklyn Water Association 1,901 600 -
Camp Shelby Training Site 1,300 4 -
Carnes Water Association 1,160 589 -
S MS Public Water Auth-McLaurin 905 269 -
S MS Public Water Auth-Rock Hill 803 258 Clean
Black Creek Retreat 235 742 -
Dollar General #13491 200 5 -
195 Lounge, Bar & Grill 150 23 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Forrest County

Cross-state counties nearest Forrest County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (9,982). 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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