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Winkler County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX495 · Winkler County 12 sys · 433 viol · #2448/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.4% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2448/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Brazoria County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Winkler County ranks #2,448 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #176 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Winkler County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.4% 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 #2,448 of 3,254 · #176 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Winkler County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Montgomery · near Winkler · this county Bee · highest 66.7% 81.9% 82.3% 82.9% 83.3% 83.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Kermit 5,708 48 Clean
City of Wink 1,839 63 -
Wink Loving Isd 515 118 -
Rocking Ranch RV Park 293 24 -
Wyatts Lodge 150 0 -
Atlas Energy Solutions 874 95 9 -
Winkler County Golf Course 60 104 -
Badger Mining - Kermit Plant 52 1 -
Atlas 1 50 31 -
Atlas 2 50 31 -
Black Mountain Sand Vest Site 48 0 -
Black Mountain Sand El Dorado Site 27 4 -

Compare beyond Texas

Lower-flagged peers for Winkler County

Cross-state counties nearest Winkler County on flagged-system share (83.3%) and cumulative violation count (433). 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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