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Polk County, Oregon

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet OR053 · Polk County 29 sys · 2,619 viol · #915/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 86.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 6.6% health
  • RANK-UPPER #915/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 5.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 72%
  • SYS-SMALL 29 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Yamhill County (+ 5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Polk County ranks #915 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #16 of 36 counties in Oregon. See methodology · corpus placement.

Polk County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 86.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 6.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #915 of 3,254 · #16 of 36 in Oregon.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Polk County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Polk · this county · lowest Deschutes · near Josephine · near 86.2% 91.2% 97.1% 97.4% 98% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Polk County

Cross-state counties nearest Polk County on flagged-system share (86.2%) and cumulative violation count (2,619). 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.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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