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Lamar County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS073 · Lamar County 11 sys · 6,121 viol · #785/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.0% health
  • RANK-UPPER #785/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lamar County ranks #785 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #14 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lamar County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.0% 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 #785 of 3,254 · #14 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lamar County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Issaquena · highest Rankin · near Forrest · near 75.9% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
West Lamar Water Assn #1 18,491 708 Clean
North Lamar Water Association 12,778 785 Clean
Lamar Park Water & Sewage Assn 7,714 944 Clean
Progress Comm Water Assn 7,017 700 Clean
Arnold Line Water Association 6,600 722 Clean
North Lumberton Utility Assn 4,071 812 Clean
Canebrake Utility Assoc Inc 2,619 564 -
City of Purvis 2,590 279 -
Town of Sumrall 1,998 289 -
City of Lumberton 1,896 308 -
R D Morrow Power Plant 64 10 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Lamar County

Cross-state counties nearest Lamar County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (6,121). 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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