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Pontotoc County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS115 · Pontotoc County 12 sys · 8,037 viol · #1176/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1176/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Pontotoc County ranks #1,176 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #23 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Pontotoc 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 0.7% 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 #1,176 of 3,254 · #23 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Pontotoc County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Hinds · lowest Issaquena · highest Rankin · near Forrest · near 75.9% 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 Pontotoc 9,398 1,579 Clean
Algoma Water Association 6,879 1,024 Clean
East Pontotoc Water Assn 5,141 794 Clean
Oak Hill Water Assn 4,739 465 Clean
Town of Ecru 2,215 833 -
MUD Creek Water Association #1 1,764 314 -
Toccopola Water Association #2 1,592 545 -
Troy Water Association 1,580 543 -
Randolph Water Association #1 1,299 560 Clean
Town of Sherman 847 520 -
MUD Creek Water Association #2 663 332 -
Houlka-Washington Ext 570 528 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Pontotoc County

Cross-state counties nearest Pontotoc County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (8,037). 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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