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Shelby County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX419 · Shelby County 21 sys · 5,659 viol · #1460/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 25.4% health
  • RANK-MID #1460/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 81%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shelby County ranks #1,460 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #100 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shelby 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 25.4% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,460 of 3,254 · #100 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shelby County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Bee · highest Hidalgo · near Guadalupe · 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
City of Center 5,450 163 Clean
City of Huxley 1,930 689 -
McClelland WSC 1,837 118 -
Shelbyville WSC 1,800 192 Clean
City of Tenaha 1,746 281 -
City of Joaquin 1,620 207 -
Timpson Rural Water Supply 1,620 53 -
Flat Fork WSC 1,605 65 -
City of Timpson 1,549 289 -
Sand Hills WSC 1,500 101 -
Five Way WSC 1,409 86 -
Choice WSC 1,014 116 -
Paxton WSC 908 250 -
East Lamar WSC 900 64 -
Paxton WSC Jackson Plant 827 99 Clean
Buena Vista WSC 647 59 -
Tennessee WSC 371 106 -
Huber WSC 353 52 -
Williams Trailer Park 157 473 -
Woodland Shores Subdivision 75 1,218 -
Shelby Water 61 978 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Shelby County

Cross-state counties nearest Shelby County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (5,659). 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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