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Hale County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX189 · Hale County 21 sys · 2,647 viol · #1355/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 95.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.7% health
  • RANK-MID #1355/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 95%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Kerr County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Hale County ranks #1,355 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #93 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Hale County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 95.2% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.7% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,355 of 3,254 · #93 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Hale County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Kerr · near Calhoun · near Bee · highest 66.7% 95.2% 95.4% 95.5% 95.5% 95.5% 100%

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

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Mid-flagged peers for Hale County

Cross-state counties nearest Hale County on flagged-system share (95.2%) and cumulative violation count (2,647). 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.

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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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