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Young County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX503 · Young County 6 sys · 363 viol · #1695/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 20.7% health
  • RANK-MID #1695/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 83%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Young County ranks #1,695 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #116 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Young County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% 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 #1,695 of 3,254 · #116 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Young County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Bee · highest Hidalgo · near Guadalupe · near 66.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Graham 8,732 48 Detected
Fort Belknap WSC 8,070 19 Detected
City of Olney 3,285 38 -
Graham East WSC 759 80 -
City of Newcastle 532 148 -
Loving WSC 200 30 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Young County

Cross-state counties nearest Young County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (363). 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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