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Howard County, Arkansas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet AR061 · Howard County 8 sys · 656 viol · #2006/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 59.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2006/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 63%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Howard County ranks #2,006 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #44 of 75 counties in Arkansas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Howard County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 59.0% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #2,006 of 3,254 · #44 of 75 in Arkansas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Howard County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Pulaski · lowest Madison · highest Pope · near Mississippi · near 74.2% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Nashville Rural Water Authority 7,291 223 Clean
Nashville Waterworks 4,153 25 Detected
Mineral Springs Waterworks 1,364 35 -
Dierks Water Works 1,317 37 -
North Howard Rural Water Association 710 80 -
Tollette Water 346 77 -
Cottonshed Waterworks 62 169 -
Primo Refill Wmsc0033 Nashville 30 10 -

Compare beyond Arkansas

Mid-flagged peers for Howard County

Cross-state counties nearest Howard County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (656). 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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