Community Water System · PWS MS0070004
City of Calhoun City
Operator location Calhoun City, Mississippi - 0% of 978 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 2,101 served per SDWIS.
- 2,101
- People served (this PWS)
- 978
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Calhoun City standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 978 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #13,155 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Calhoun City sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (978), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,101 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,155 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #352 of 837
- Population · MS
- 978
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 968
- County
- Calhoun
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 958
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MR | 258 | 2012 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 180 | 2012 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 180 | 2012 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 84 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 84 | 2008 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Benzene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Toluene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Styrene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Calhoun City has 978 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 978), and it ranks #13,155 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
978 Higher than most more violations than 99% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on City of Calhoun City
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MS0070004.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
978 violations · 2,101 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with City of Calhoun City
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