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Shannon County, South Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SD113 · Shannon County 2 sys · 827 viol · #3133/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-HIGH 50.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.7% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #3133/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 14.7 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-SW SW lead 50%
  • SYS-TINY 2 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Custer County (+ 14.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shannon County ranks #3,133 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #48 of 65 counties in South Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shannon County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 50.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.7% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Shannon County . Population served ranks #3,133 of 3,254 · #48 of 65 in South Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shannon County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Shannon · this county · lowest Lawrence · near 50% 64.7% 80% 86.3% 87.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Lakota Tech High School 1,250 0 -
Batesland 148 827 -

Compare beyond South Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Shannon County

Cross-state counties nearest Shannon County on flagged-system share (50.0%) and cumulative violation count (827). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

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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