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Karnes County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX255 · Karnes County 9 sys · 642 viol · #1801/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 29.1% health
  • RANK-MID #1801/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 89%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Burnet County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Karnes County ranks #1,801 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #127 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Karnes County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 29.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,801 of 3,254 · #127 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Karnes County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Burnet · near Chambers · near Bee · highest 66.7% 88.3% 88.6% 88.9% 89.3% 89.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Kenedy 6,454 122 Clean
El Oso WSC 6,288 85 Clean
City of Karnes City 4,269 77 Clean
City of Runge 1,482 126 -
City of Falls City 514 74 -
Conocophillips Kenedy Office 175 3 -
Jericho Ranch RV Park 156 0 -
Cissys RV Ranch 124 121 -
Peak Rentals Kenedy Hauler 25 34 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Karnes County

Cross-state counties nearest Karnes County on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (642). 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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