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Morton County, North Dakota

13 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 29,721 people in Morton County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

13
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
464
Total violations Lower third of counties
61.5%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet ND059 · Morton County 13 sys · 464 viol · #1376/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-MID · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 61.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 6.0% health
  • RANK-MID #1376/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 5.1 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 92%
  • SYS-SMALL 13 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Pierce County (+ 5.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Morton County ranks #1,376 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #7 of 52 counties in North Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Morton County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 61.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 6.0% 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 #1,376 of 3,254 · #7 of 52 in North Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Morton County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Morton · this county · lowest Burleigh · near Walsh · near 61.5% 66.7% 75% 75% 80% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Morton County

Cross-state counties nearest Morton County on flagged-system share (61.5%) and cumulative violation count (464). 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).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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