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Howard County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX227 · Howard County 9 sys · 1,034 viol · #1298/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 66.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 47.9% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1298/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 7.4 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 56%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Gillespie County (+ 7.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Howard County ranks #1,298 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #91 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Howard County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 66.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 47.9% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,298 of 3,254 · #91 of 254 in Texas.

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% Howard · this county · lowest Donley · near 66.7% 74% 74.7% 75% 76.8% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Big Spring 27,282 253 Detected
City of Coahoma 3,552 366 Detected
Buffalo Country Uncles 130216 375 12 -
George H Obrien JR VA Medical Center 325 188 -
Txdot Howard County Sra 300 56 -
City of Forsan 228 159 -
Ahg Big Spring 220 0 -
Nustar Big Spring Terminal 92 0 -
Rock Ridge Field Office 29 0 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Howard County

Cross-state counties nearest Howard County on flagged-system share (66.7%) and cumulative violation count (1,034). 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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