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Sunflower County, Mississippi

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MS133 · Sunflower County 14 sys · 8,353 viol · #1473/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.4% health
  • RANK-MID #1473/3254
  • 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, Sunflower County ranks #1,473 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #34 of 82 counties in Mississippi. See methodology · corpus placement.

Sunflower 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 4.4% 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 #1,473 of 3,254 · #34 of 82 in Mississippi.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Sunflower County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Sunflower 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 Indianola 9,464 720 Clean
Fmh Water Association 2,740 1,138 -
City of Ruleville 2,657 558 -
MS State Penitentiary-MN Ln 2,500 1,151 -
Town of Moorhead 2,301 817 -
City of Drew 2,300 874 -
Town of Sunflower 1,900 711 -
So. Sunflower W/A-Inverness 898 54 -
Town of Inverness 839 532 -
Sunflower Water Assn 473 272 -
Town of Doddsville 264 942 -
So Sunflower W/A-Indianola 251 64 -
Big Yeager Water Association 238 263 -
Rome Water System 211 257 -

Compare beyond Mississippi

Mid-flagged peers for Sunflower County

Cross-state counties nearest Sunflower County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (8,353). 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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