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Scott County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS123 · Scott County 14 sys · 10,379 viol · #1259/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.9% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1259/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 14 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, Scott County ranks #1,259 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #26 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Scott 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 2.9% 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 #1,259 of 3,254 · #26 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Scott County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Scott 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
Sebastopol Water Association 6,207 1,553 Clean
City of Forest 5,430 1,279 Clean
City of Morton 3,400 958 Clean
H & H Water System, Inc 3,036 844 -
Steele-Ringgold W/a #1 2,965 545 Clean
Steele-Ringgold W/a #2 2,883 545 -
Homewood Water Association 1,877 1,093 -
C & C W/A 1,808 833 -
L & F Water Association 1,803 834 -
Homestead Water Association 1,251 296 -
Koch Foods of Mississippi, LLC 1,085 22 -
Raytheon Company 850 14 -
High Hill Water Association 600 645 -
Lake Water Works 500 918 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Scott County

Cross-state counties nearest Scott County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (10,379). 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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