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Gaines County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX165 · Gaines County 10 sys · 4,046 viol · #2321/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 75.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2321/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 10 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Gaines County ranks #2,321 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #166 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Gaines County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 75.5% 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 #2,321 of 3,254 · #166 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Gaines County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Gaines · this county Washington · near Bee · highest 66.7% 89.5% 90% 90% 90% 90.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Seminole 7,386 680 Clean
City of Seagraves 2,417 1,558 -
Loop WSC 300 875 -
Rockets RV Park 100 80 -
Gaines County Park 53 317 -
Gaines County Golf Course 50 119 -
Seminole Gas Processing Plant 37 113 -
Kalsec Southwest 30 298 -
Texland Great Plains Water Supply 0 6 -
Metro Water Systems 0 0 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Gaines County

Cross-state counties nearest Gaines County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (4,046). 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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