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Jones County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS067 · Jones County 23 sys · 13,339 viol · #736/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 95.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.3% health
  • RANK-UPPER #736/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 23 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Lafayette County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Jones County ranks #736 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #11 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Jones County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 95.7% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 0.3% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #736 of 3,254 · #11 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Jones County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Jackson · near Lafayette · near Issaquena · highest 75.9% 94.1% 94.4% 95.7% 95.8% 96.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Laurel 18,100 673 Clean
Southwest Jones W/A-North 6,690 909 Clean
Pleasant Ridge W/A 5,808 481 Clean
City of Ellisville 4,600 1,106 Clean
J P Utility District 3,839 1,178 Clean
Calhoun Water Association 3,730 531 Clean
Glade Waterworks Assn 3,340 979 Clean
Moselle Water Association 3,002 535 -
M & M Water Association 3,000 956 Clean
Sharon Water Works 2,769 1,066 -
Powers Water Association 2,413 547 -
Shady Grove Utility District 2,390 1,112 -
Soso Community Water Sys. Inc 1,840 268 -
J P Utility Dist #2 1,521 270 -
Oak Grove Water Assn 1,405 524 -
Water Association of Pine Grove, Inc 1,146 532 -
Hatten Water Assn 1,075 281 -
Matthews Moss Water Assn 1,051 270 -
Erata Water Association 818 274 -
Southern Hen Inc 800 4 -
Ellisville State School #1 750 256 -
Town of Sandersville 636 587 -
Hattiesburg-Laurel Reg Airport 100 0 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Jones County

Cross-state counties nearest Jones County on flagged-system share (95.7%) and cumulative violation count (13,339). 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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