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Taylor County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX441 · Taylor County 17 sys · 1,916 viol · #387/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 30.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #387/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 88%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 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, Taylor County ranks #387 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #32 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Taylor 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 30.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #387 of 3,254 · #32 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Taylor County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Taylor 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 Abilene 125,182 36 Detected
Steamboat Mountain WSC 8,178 85 Detected
Potosi WSC 7,413 83 Detected
Dyess Air Force Base 7,183 24 Detected
Sun WSC 3,420 37 -
View Caps WSC 2,928 39 -
City of Merkel 2,494 96 -
Hamby WSC 2,082 34 -
Tuscola-Taylor County Wcid 1 1,890 6 -
City of Buffalo Gap 1,502 90 -
City of Tye 1,176 81 Detected
Blair WSC 957 219 -
City of Lawn 767 975 -
Tpwd Abilene State Park 408 16 -
City of Trent 368 34 -
Butman Methodist Encampment 330 19 -
Buffalo Gap Wind Farm 44 42 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Taylor County

Cross-state counties nearest Taylor County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,916). 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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