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Ward County, North Dakota

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet ND101 · Ward County 14 sys · 589 viol · #787/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 92.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 53.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #787/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 14 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Cass County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Ward County ranks #787 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #4 of 52 counties in North Dakota. See methodology · corpus placement.

Ward County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 92.9% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 53.7% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #787 of 3,254 · #4 of 52 in North Dakota.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Ward County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Morton · lowest Barnes · near Ward · this county Slope · highest 61.5% 87.5% 88.9% 92.6% 92.9% 95.5% 100%

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

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Mid-flagged peers for Ward County

Cross-state counties nearest Ward County on flagged-system share (92.9%) and cumulative violation count (589). 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.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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