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Lamb County, Texas

12 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 12,062 people in Lamb County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

12
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
986
Total violations Middle third of counties
91.7%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX279 · Lamb County 12 sys · 986 viol · #2210/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 19.8% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2210/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Comal County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lamb County ranks #2,210 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #156 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lamb 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 19.8% is health-based share in the middle 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 #2,210 of 3,254 · #156 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lamb County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Comal · near Victoria · near Bee · highest 66.7% 91.5% 91.6% 91.7% 91.8% 92.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Littlefield 6,372 49 Clean
City of Olton 1,953 25 -
City of Sudan 940 38 -
City of Earth 937 41 -
City of Amherst 721 27 -
Springlake Earth Isd 398 58 -
City of Springlake 247 91 -
Sunnydale WSC 162 132 -
Spade WSC 100 330 -
Hop in 430493 100 194 -
Tolk Station Power Plant 99 1 -
Plant X Power Plant 33 0 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Lamb County

Cross-state counties nearest Lamb County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (986). 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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