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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet PA101 · Philadelphia County 6 sys · 447 viol · #29/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 10.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #29/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 83%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Philadelphia County ranks #29 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #2 of 68 counties in Pennsylvania. See methodology · corpus placement.

Philadelphia 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 10.1% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #29 of 3,254 · #2 of 68 in Pennsylvania.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Philadelphia County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Greene · lowest Sullivan · highest Somerset · near Clinton · 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
Philadelphia Water Department 1,600,000 130 Detected
Thomas Jefferson Univ Hospital 1,000 62 -
Schuylkill Center for Env Edu 100 71 -
Pure Water 2 Go 25 72 -
Philly Water Works 25 92 -
Nu Water LLC 25 20 -

Compare beyond Pennsylvania

Mid-flagged peers for Philadelphia County

Cross-state counties nearest Philadelphia County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (447). 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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