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Gulf County, Florida

11 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 23,396 people in Gulf County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

11
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
372
Total violations Lower third of counties
90.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet FL045 · Gulf County 11 sys · 372 viol · #1637/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 30.1% health
  • RANK-MID #1637/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 82%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Gulf County ranks #1,637 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #47 of 67 counties in Florida. See methodology · corpus placement.

Gulf 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 30.1% 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 #1,637 of 3,254 · #47 of 67 in Florida.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Gulf County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Dixie · lowest Taylor · near Santa Rosa · near Monroe · highest 66.7% 90.9% 90.9% 90.9% 91.3% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Gulf County

Cross-state counties nearest Gulf County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (372). 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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