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Alamance County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC001 · Alamance County 99 sys · 11,703 viol · #459/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 89.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 7.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #459/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 80.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 91%
  • SYS-MID 99 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Haywood County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Alamance County ranks #459 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Alamance County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 89.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 7.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 80.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #459 of 3,254 · #20 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Alamance County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest New Hanover · near Alamance · this county Tyrrell · highest 50% 89.4% 89.6% 89.8% 89.9% 90.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Burlington, City Of 61,365 161 Detected
Mebane, City Of 20,212 66 Detected
Graham, City Of 18,354 37 Detected
Elon, Town Of 11,350 540 Detected
Haw River, Town Of 2,650 159 -
Swepsonville, Town Of 2,497 88 -
Green Level, Town Of 2,450 108 -
Ossipee Town Of 2,390 242 -
Southern Middle & High Schools 2,337 30 -
Village of Alamance 1,100 171 -
Saxapahaw Utility Company 994 382 -
Clover Garden Charter School 680 96 -
Altamahaw-Ossipee Elem School 669 104 -
B Everett Jordan Elem School 425 5 -
Sylvan Elementary School 334 16 -
Pleasant Grove Elementary School 324 14 -
Bethel Baptist Church 300 63 -
Clover Garden High School 300 0 -
Timberlake S/D 295 97 -
Cane Creek S/D 295 13 -
Sleepy Hollow Estates MHP 240 114 -
Bellemont UMC 215 133 -
Ufp Mid Atlantic LLC 210 58 -
Lakeview Community Church 200 53 -
Union Ridge Church 140 33 -
Bible Wesleyan Church 130 0 -
Country Club MHP 127 383 -
Springfield Estates 120 58 -
YMCA Camp Frontier 110 70 -
YMCA Camp Frontier-Office Well 110 71 -
South Saxapahaw Utility Company 108 217 -
New South Inc--Pond Well 101 17 -
Rae McKenzie Mobile Home Park 100 224 -
Hidden Lake Campground 100 68 -
Pleasant Hill Christian Church 100 33 -
Salem Community Church 100 17 -
Hico Baptist Church 100 37 -
Forest Valley MHP 99 535 -
Circle K Park 97 87 -
Park Place 97 55 -
Maple View MHP 96 25 -
Kimesville Road Baptist Ch 90 186 -
Crossway Church 85 210 -
Maple Oaks MHP 84 533 -
Lineberry MHP 82 58 -
Mt Olive Baptist Church 80 40 -
Phillips Chapel Church 80 44 -
Andersen Energy Inc 80 92 -
Robben Mh Court 75 411 -
Creative Child Care 75 248 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Alamance County

Cross-state counties nearest Alamance County on flagged-system share (89.9%) and cumulative violation count (11,703). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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