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Walsh County, North Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet ND099 · Walsh County 5 sys · 110 viol · #2409/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 80.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 50.9% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2409/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 80%
  • SYS-TINY 5 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Walsh County ranks #2,409 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #15 of 52 counties in North Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Walsh County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 80.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 50.9% 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 #2,409 of 3,254 · #15 of 52 in North Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Walsh County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Morton · lowest Mountrail · near Grant · near Slope · highest 61.5% 75% 75% 80% 80% 83.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Grafton City Of 4,284 7 Detected
Walsh Rural Water District 3,000 1 -
Park River City Of 1,403 3 -
Minto City Of 604 0 -
Fordville Public School 75 99 -

Compare beyond North Dakota

Lower-flagged peers for Walsh County

Cross-state counties nearest Walsh County on flagged-system share (80.0%) and cumulative violation count (110). 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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