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Newton County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX351 · Newton County 9 sys · 803 viol · #2282/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2282/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Newton County ranks #2,282 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #162 of 254 counties in Texas. 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 3.6% 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 #2,282 of 3,254 · #162 of 254 in Texas.

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% Howard · lowest Bee · highest Hidalgo · near Guadalupe · near 66.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
South Newton WSC 3,729 104 Clean
City of Newton 3,121 57 -
Toledo Village WSC 1,570 33 -
Bon Wier WSC 700 32 -
Burkeville WSC 699 20 -
Jamestown WSC 459 19 -
East Texas Baptist Encampment 400 128 -
Tall Timbers WSC 234 298 -
Goshen Erets 52 112 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Newton County

Cross-state counties nearest Newton County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (803). 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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