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Jim Wells County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX249 · Jim Wells County 13 sys · 7,346 viol · #1517/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 92.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1517/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 92%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Jim Wells County ranks #1,517 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #104 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Jim Wells 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 8.8% 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 #1,517 of 3,254 · #104 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Jim Wells County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Jim Wells · this county Brazos · near Bee · highest 66.7% 92.1% 92.3% 92.3% 92.3% 92.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Alice 19,104 25 Detected
City of Premont 2,441 62 -
Jim Wells County Fwsd 1 1,950 690 -
City of Orange Grove 1,170 28 -
Dollar General Sandia 287 24 -
Loma Linda Water Supply 216 2,398 -
Paisano Mobile Home Park 146 89 -
Envigo Global Services 146 1,294 -
La Gloria Isd 140 61 -
Sandia Family Dollar Store 100 0 -
English Acres 90 2,485 -
Stglh Alice 74 16 -
Orange Grove Navy Aux Landing Fld 26 174 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Jim Wells County

Cross-state counties nearest Jim Wells County on flagged-system share (92.3%) and cumulative violation count (7,346). 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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