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Lincoln County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS085 · Lincoln County 10 sys · 3,387 viol · #1227/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1227/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 10 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lincoln County ranks #1,227 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #25 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lincoln County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% 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%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,227 of 3,254 · #25 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lincoln County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Lincoln · this county Hancock · near Issaquena · highest 75.9% 89.5% 90% 90% 90.5% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Brookhaven 12,513 767 Detected
Topisaw Creek 5,349 523 Clean
Lincoln Rural W/a-Heucks Ret 3,778 334 Clean
Lincoln Rural W/a-Pleasant Rid 2,938 439 -
Lincoln Rural W/A-Beauregard 2,600 262 -
Lincoln Rural W/A-Zetus 2,204 262 -
Bogue Chitto Water Association 2,162 535 -
Lincoln Rural W/a-Old Red Star 2,001 261 -
Hood's Fuel Center 1,000 0 -
Dollar General #13684 300 4 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Lower-flagged peers for Lincoln County

Cross-state counties nearest Lincoln County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,387). 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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