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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MS0300014

Jackson Co West Port Auth.

Operator location Pascagoula, Mississippi - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 100 people served; 22 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

100
People served (this PWS)
22
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Jackson Co West Port Auth. standing, mid SDWIS violation third

100 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Jackson Co West Port Auth. lands in the middle third by violation volume (22), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (100; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

22
Total EPA violations on record
9%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
100
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
18
County
Jackson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
14
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2000
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Jackson Co West Port Auth. has 22 recorded EPA violations, 34% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 65% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 22), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

22 Lower than most fewer violations than 65% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Jackson Co West Port Auth.

EPA SDWIS lists 100 people served and 18 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

22 violations · 100 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Jackson Co West Port Auth.

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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