About WaterByCounty

WaterByCounty presents county aggregations of EPA SDWIS compliance records, EPA ATTAINS water-body assessments, EPA Water Quality Portal monitoring activity, and USGS NWIS streamflow snapshots. It is an informational data publication—not a utility, laboratory, engineering service, health service, or current determination for an address or private well.

The publication links readers to EPA and USGS sources and keeps the four tracks separate. The methodology provides exact extraction receipts, zero/null rules, the relative tie-aware SDWIS Compliance Index, the absolute Five-Year SDWIS Compliance Band, and current publication counts.

WaterByCounty is the site-level publisher. It is operated as a distinct publication within ByCounty Network, one of the specialized publications that share one parent publisher, infrastructure, and publishing standards.

Pages are prepared by the ByCounty Editorial Team, the network's shared publishing function. This organization attribution does not claim individual authorship, licensed subject-matter expertise, or individual review of every page.

Deterministic pipeline functions fetch, normalize, aggregate, rank, band, and summarize the published source fields. Validation checks source structure, model invariants, county-cohort parity, visible/source-fact equivalence, identity, and prohibited corpus claims before publication.

County boundaries may not match utility service areas or watersheds. Historical compliance records do not establish present conditions. SDWIS excludes private wells; monitoring volume does not measure quality; water-body and streamflow records do not describe finished tap water.

A county must pass the documented data-completeness, secondary-source, contradiction, and generated-copy gates. Missing values remain missing, observed zero remains zero, and suppressed records do not generate public county pages. Exact counts are on the methodology page.

Potential discrepancies are checked against the primary record. Confirmed errors are corrected in the artifact or presentation code and republished through the verified build. See the corrections policy.

Google AdSense display advertising may fund the publication. Advertisers do not determine sources, models, coverage, or conclusions.

WaterByCounty currently publishes zero current verified public affiliate recommendations. Any future recommendation must pass exact identity, date, evidence, and supported-claim checks; potential commercial partners do not control editorial decisions.

The contact page identifies the responsible publishing organizations and primary-source routes. Readers can submit corrections, source discrepancies, and editorial feedback to editorial@waterbycounty.com. The mailbox was delivery-tested before publication.