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Worcester County, Maryland

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet MD047 · Worcester County 139 sys · 2,846 viol · #601/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 72.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 25.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #601/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.8 pp
  • PFAS-MID 40.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-LARGE 139 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Caroline County ( -0.8 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Worcester County ranks #601 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #11 of 24 counties in Maryland. See methodology · corpus placement.

Worcester County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 72.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 25.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 40.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #601 of 3,254 · #11 of 24 in Maryland.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Worcester County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Baltimore city · lowest Caroline · near Queen Anne's · near Kent · highest 38.5% 71.4% 71.9% 72.7% 77% 77.3% 96.6%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Town of Ocean City 30,000 26 Clean
Ocean Pines 11,890 73 Detected
Assateague National Park North Beach 10,020 0 -
Mystic Harbour 5,945 26 Clean
Town of Berlin 4,500 158 Detected
City of Pocomoke City 4,100 38 Clean
Wawa Inc Store#556 2,520 5 -
Town of Snow Hill 2,409 100 -
Castaways Campground 1,550 3 -
Wallbangers and Harborside 885 1 -
Steamer Restaurant(crab Alley) 850 7 -
Hoopers Restaurant 800 1 -
Lower Shore Tourism Center 713 18 -
Frontiertown- Community Ctr + SW Sites 624 0 -
Frontiertown Lazy River Bathhouse 620 8 -
Frontiertown Bathhouse # 3 618 3 -
Frontiertown Bathhouse # 1 618 4 -
Shore Stop #219 609 14 -
Carraba's Italian Grill 600 0 -
Shad Landing/Pocomoke River State Park 530 0 -
Riddle Farm 500 4 -
Nantucket Point(distribution-Delaware) 500 67 -
Worcester Technical Hs & Co Boe Office 450 39 -
Frontiertown Theme Park 430 1 -
Lake Haven Mobile Home Park 384 141 -
Plim Plaza Hotel - Distribution 380 0 -
Assateague State Park Campground 345 1 -
Trader Lees Village Shops 334 42 -
Newark 325 3 -
Crabs to Go and Raceway Citgo 318 4 -
Holiday Inn Express Ocean City 255 0 -
Most Blessed Sacrament School 244 72 -
Watermans Seafood 240 3 -
Ocean Downs, LLC 235 39 -
Fort Whaley Office and Pool 228 2 -
Comfort Inn Suites 228 6 -
Fort Whaley Campground 228 1 -
Golden Sands Condos -Consec to Md0230003 227 0 -
Delmarva Acco 225 0 -
Baja Amusement Inc 220 0 -
Fort Whaleg Bathhouse #2 /Back Sites 220 0 -
Frontiertown Waterslide, Lazy R Saloon 215 12 -
Lighthouse Sound Maintenance 215 0 -
Rum Pointe Golf Clubhouse 212 0 -
Four Corners Commercial Ctr 212 0 -
Assateague Market 206 6 -
Ocean City Grand Prix 205 15 -
Berlin Lions Club Ll Concession Stand 200 0 -
Worcester County Athletic Complex 200 1 -
Bali HI RV Park 188 19 -

Compare beyond Maryland

Lower-flagged peers for Worcester County

Cross-state counties nearest Worcester County on flagged-system share (72.7%) and cumulative violation count (2,846). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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