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Burke County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC023 · Burke County 51 sys · 2,095 viol · #692/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.3% health
  • RANK-UPPER #692/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 76%
  • SYS-MID 51 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Polk County (+ 0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Burke County ranks #692 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #30 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Burke County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.3% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #692 of 3,254 · #30 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Burke County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Polk · near Jackson · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 84.3% 84.6% 85.2% 85.7% 85.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Morganton City Of 27,221 31 Clean
Valdese, Town Of 13,571 231 Clean
Icard Township Water Corp 7,821 12 Clean
Brentwood-Jamestown Road 5,988 12 Clean
Brentwood Water Association 5,911 19 Clean
Burke Co. Water-South 5,207 12 -
Drexel Town Of 3,302 18 -
Rutherford College Town Of 2,083 38 -
Burke Co-Airport Rhodhiss 559 42 -
Steel Creek Park 500 122 -
Burke County Omara 350 19 -
East Shores S/D 350 11 -
Lake James State Park-Paddy Creek 300 0 -
Lake James State Park - Visitor Center 300 5 -
Gingercake Acres 270 136 -
Pine Mountain Lakes S/D 239 159 -
South Mtn Bapt Camp-Lineberger 150 16 -
Paddy`s Creek Campground 104 10 -
South Mtn St Prk-Jacob Fork Comfort Stat 100 33 -
Canal Bridge Boating Access 100 5 -
South Mtn St Prk-Maint Office 100 0 -
South Mtn St Prk-Equestrain Campground 100 0 -
Jonas Ridge Rest Home 80 93 -
South Mountain Childrens Home 80 194 -
Antioch Baptist Church 80 37 -
Daniel Boone Fam Cpg 75 48 -
Walkers Chapel Baptist Ch 75 18 -
Rhodhiss Town of Henry St 70 22 -
Linville Falls General Store 65 14 -
Horseshoe Bend Campground 64 42 -
Brown Mtn Baptist Church 50 0 -
Smyrna Baptist Church 50 76 -
South Mtn St Prk-Fam Camp Bath 50 0 -
Lake James State Park-Paddy Crk Cmpgrnd 50 0 -
Mountain Grove UMC 47 43 -
Linville Rivers End RV Park No 4 42 32 -
Cliftwood West Water System 40 140 -
South Mtn Bapt Camp-Byrd Cnt 40 37 -
Fonta Flora County Park 40 12 -
River Valley Baptist Church 35 34 -
Silver Creek Baptist Church 30 8 -
Linville Rivers End RV Park No 1 30 7 -
Linville Rivers End RV Park No 2 30 12 -
Linville Rivers End RV Park No 3 30 27 -
Lake James Marina 25 61 -
South Mtn Bapt Camp-Cabins 25 34 -
Outward Bound Table Rock Base 25 119 -
Brown Mountain Orv Trailhead 25 13 -
Burke Veneers 25 41 -
Camp Lake James 25 0 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Burke County

Cross-state counties nearest Burke County on flagged-system share (84.3%) and cumulative violation count (2,095). 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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