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George County, Mississippi

10 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 16,008 people in George County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

10
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
2,640
Total violations Middle third of counties
90.0%
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 MS039 · George County 10 sys · 2,640 viol · #1959/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.3% health
  • RANK-LOWER #1959/3254
  • 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: Lincoln County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, George County ranks #1,959 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #55 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

George 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 1.3% 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 #1,959 of 3,254 · #55 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around George County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest George · this county Hancock · near Issaquena · highest 75.9% 89.5% 90% 90% 90.5% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Combined Utilities 6,658 783 Clean
City of Lucedale 3,164 548 -
Rocky Creek Utilities, Inc 2,095 600 -
Multi-Mart Water Association 1,785 72 -
Bexley Water Association 1,486 533 -
Benndale Super Store 210 8 -
Red Creek Capital Investments, LLC 200 25 -
Benndale School 175 51 -
Dollar General #18662 150 20 -
Benndale Catfish House LLC 85 0 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Lower-flagged peers for George County

Cross-state counties nearest George County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,640). 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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