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Palo Pinto County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX363 · Palo Pinto County 17 sys · 2,324 viol · #1065/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 39.0% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1065/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 88%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 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, Palo Pinto County ranks #1,065 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #79 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Palo Pinto 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 39.0% 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 #1,065 of 3,254 · #79 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Palo Pinto County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Palo Pinto 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
City of Mineral Wells 15,564 28 Detected
Possum Kingdom WSC 7,395 116 Clean
North Rural WSC 3,610 32 -
Santo Sud 3,546 38 -
Sturdivant Progress WSC 3,111 65 -
Lake Palo Pinto Area WSC 2,247 112 -
The Cliffs 1,115 424 -
Palo Pinto WSC 1,000 50 -
Tpwd Possum Kingdom State Park 952 66 -
City of Strawn 916 560 -
Worth Ranch 890 205 -
City of Graford 692 129 -
Sportsmans World MUD 672 171 -
City of Gordon 475 66 -
City of Mingus 223 186 -
Famous Mineral Water 50 35 -
Mineral Wells Living Water Works 25 41 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Palo Pinto County

Cross-state counties nearest Palo Pinto County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,324). 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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