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Community Water System · PWS MS0230065

Hancock County Water & Sewer

Operator location Kiln, Mississippi - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 363 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,254 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,254
People served (this PWS)
363
EPA violations (this PWS)
79
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hancock County Water & Sewer standing, high SDWIS violation third

363 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,038 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Hancock County Water & Sewer sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (363), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,254 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,038 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#209 of 837
Population · MS
363
Total EPA violations on record
22%
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
1,528
County
Hancock
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
79
Monitoring Violations
272
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Uranium MR 86 2012
Radium-226 MR 60 2012
Radium-228 MR 60 2012
TTHM MCL 39 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 38 2018
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 28 2008
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 28 2008
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2007
Chlorine MR 4 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2023
Public Notice Other 4 2019
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2006
CYANIDE MR 2 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hancock County Water & Sewer has 363 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (79 of 363), and it ranks #10,038 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)

363 Higher than most more violations than 93% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Hancock County Water & Sewer

363 violations on record for MS0230065; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

363 violations · 3,254 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Hancock County Water & Sewer

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Mississippi compares on the same EPA violation measures. Mississippi systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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