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Newton County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS101 · Newton County 11 sys · 3,819 viol · #1705/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.9% health
  • RANK-MID #1705/3254
  • 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, Newton County ranks #1,705 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #47 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Newton 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 0.9% 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 #1,705 of 3,254 · #47 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Newton County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Newton 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
City of Union 3,432 260 Clean
City of Newton 3,373 249 Clean
Town of Hickory 2,669 576 -
North Decatur W/a #1 2,455 455 -
Beulah Hubbard Water Assn, Inc 2,318 277 -
South Newton Rural W/a #1 2,167 804 -
Town of Decatur 1,945 285 -
Duffee Water Association 1,716 338 -
South Newton Rural W/a #4 618 269 -
Town of Chunky 507 297 -
South Newton Rural W/a #2 275 9 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Newton County

Cross-state counties nearest Newton County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,819). 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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