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Washington County, Texas

20 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 27,164 people in Washington County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

20
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
806
Total violations Middle third of counties
90.0%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
100.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX477 · Washington County 20 sys · 806 viol · #1468/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 20.7% health
  • RANK-MID #1468/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 95%
  • SYS-SMALL 20 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Washington County ranks #1,468 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #101 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Washington County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 20.7% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,468 of 3,254 · #101 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Washington County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Washington · this county Austin · near Bee · highest 66.7% 89.5% 90% 90% 90.6% 90.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Washington County

Cross-state counties nearest Washington County on flagged-system share (90.0%) and cumulative violation count (806). 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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