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Kemper County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS069 · Kemper County 12 sys · 3,391 viol · #2199/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.5% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2199/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.6 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Marshall County (+ 0.6 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Kemper County ranks #2,199 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #67 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Kemper County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 0.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Kemper County . Population served ranks #2,199 of 3,254 · #67 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Kemper County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest George · near Kemper · this county Issaquena · highest 75.9% 90% 90% 90.5% 91.7% 92.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Kipling W/a #1 2,637 272 -
Porterville W/A 2,445 648 -
North West Kemper W/a #4 1,671 265 -
NW Kemper W/a #1-Preston 1,618 263 -
NW Kemper W/a #2- Cleveland 1,196 260 -
Town of Dekalb 985 270 -
Town of Scooba 744 812 -
NW Kemper W/a #3-Kynard 407 259 -
Townsend Water Association 238 15 -
Kipling W/a #4 169 0 -
Porterville W/a-Kemper Springs 108 322 -
Kipling W/a #3-Old Scooba RD 77 5 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Lower-flagged peers for Kemper County

Cross-state counties nearest Kemper County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (3,391). 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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