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Bladen County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC017 · Bladen County 25 sys · 3,547 viol · #1092/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 96.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.2% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1092/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 92%
  • SYS-SMALL 25 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Durham County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Bladen County ranks #1,092 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #54 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Bladen County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 96.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 2.2% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,092 of 3,254 · #54 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Bladen County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Bladen · this county Brunswick · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 95.8% 96% 96% 96.3% 96.3% 100%

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

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Mid-flagged peers for Bladen County

Cross-state counties nearest Bladen County on flagged-system share (96.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,547). 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.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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

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