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Payne County, Oklahoma

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet OK119 · Payne County 22 sys · 2,865 viol · #635/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 28.4% health
  • RANK-TOP #635/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 66.7% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 64%
  • SYS-SMALL 22 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Payne County ranks #635 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 77 counties in Oklahoma. See methodology · corpus placement.

Payne 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 28.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 66.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #635 of 3,254 · #5 of 77 in Oklahoma.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Payne County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Murray · lowest Cimarron · highest Rogers · near Muskogee · near 88.9% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Stillwater Utilities Authority 53,000 160 Detected
Osu Water Plant 13,000 111 Detected
Cushing 8,371 36 Clean
Payne Co Rw Corp #3 3,000 50 -
Perkins 2,572 525 -
51 East Water 2,500 36 -
Payne Co RWD #3 1,400 114 -
Yale 1,227 425 -
Payne Co RWD #4 820 369 -
Glencoe 478 73 -
Ripley PWA 376 108 -
Oak Grove School 208 96 -
Oak Grove Church 200 22 -
Yost Lake Country Club 113 61 -
Ralphs Packing 50 31 -
The Western Commercial Kitchen 50 18 -
Red Wagon MHP 46 256 -
4 T's of Stillwater, LLC 40 33 -
Cindy Cooper Catering 30 8 -
Mrt Properties (Taylor's RV Park) 30 24 -
Cowboy Cove LLC 26 205 -
Wildwood Acres RV Park 22 104 -

Compare beyond Oklahoma

Mid-flagged peers for Payne County

Cross-state counties nearest Payne County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,865). 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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