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Gooding County, Idaho

26 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 9,512 people in Gooding County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

26
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
1,336
Total violations Middle third of counties
92.3%
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 ID047 · Gooding County 26 sys · 1,336 viol · #2398/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 92.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 13.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2398/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 26 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Ada County ( -0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Gooding County ranks #2,398 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #26 of 44 counties in Idaho. See methodology · corpus placement.

Gooding County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 92.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 13.5% 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 #2,398 of 3,254 · #26 of 44 in Idaho.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Gooding County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Valley · lowest Gooding · this county Benewah · near Camas · highest 89.5% 92% 92.3% 93.2% 93.3% 93.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Gooding County

Cross-state counties nearest Gooding County on flagged-system share (92.3%) and cumulative violation count (1,336). 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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