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Milam County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX331 · Milam County 11 sys · 929 viol · #1275/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 36.2% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1275/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 73%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Milam County ranks #1,275 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #87 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Milam County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 36.2% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,275 of 3,254 · #87 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Milam County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Lubbock · near Milam · this county Bee · highest 66.7% 90.6% 90.7% 90.8% 90.9% 91.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Southwest Milam WSC 11,739 13 Clean
City of Cameron 5,489 368 Detected
City of Rockdale 5,398 84 Clean
Milano WSC 3,891 0 Detected
North Milam WSC 1,833 46 -
City of Thorndale 1,400 16 -
Salem Elm Ridge WSC 1,371 113 -
Gause WSC 828 30 -
Marlow WSC 705 23 -
City of Buckholts 365 194 -
Minerva WSC 250 42 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Milam County

Cross-state counties nearest Milam County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (929). 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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