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Worth County, Iowa

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet IA195 · Worth County 14 sys · 716 viol · #2457/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 78.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 14.8% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2457/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 14 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Woodbury County ( -0.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Worth County ranks #2,457 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #68 of 99 counties in Iowa. See methodology · corpus placement.

Worth County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 78.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 14.8% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,457 of 3,254 · #68 of 99 in Iowa.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Worth County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mahaska · lowest Woodbury · near Wapello · near Ringgold · highest 75% 76.3% 78.1% 78.6% 80% 81.3% 100%

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

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Compare beyond Iowa

Lower-flagged peers for Worth County

Cross-state counties nearest Worth County on flagged-system share (78.6%) and cumulative violation count (716). 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).

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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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