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Catawba County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC035 · Catawba County 148 sys · 13,944 viol · #434/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #434/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 28.6% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 93%
  • SYS-LARGE 148 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Catawba County ranks #434 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #18 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Catawba County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 2.1% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 28.6% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #434 of 3,254 · #18 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Catawba County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Randolph · near Wayne · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 90.5% 90.5% 90.5% 90.9% 91% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Hickory City Of 75,654 9 Clean
Newton, City Of 18,407 239 Detected
Conover, City Of 15,347 2 Clean
Maiden, Town Of 5,441 71 Detected
Longview, Town Of 5,244 264 Clean
Southeast Catawba County 5,080 19 -
Claremont, City Of 2,645 21 -
Catawba, Town Of 1,181 13 -
Wildlife Woods Campground Inc 775 191 -
Cross Country Campground Inc 627 88 -
Pebble Bay 587 7 -
Homestead S/D Water System 389 47 -
Oxford Baptist Church 350 9 -
Hidden Creek Estates 340 16 -
Spring Haven S/D Water System 320 180 -
Country Valley II MHP 318 471 -
Duan Acres Water System 305 82 -
Lineberger`s Cattle Company 300 0 -
Woodridge S/D 295 45 -
Forest Ridge S/D 292 6 -
Woodland Oaks S/D 290 291 -
Landsdown/Eastover S/D 251 148 -
Springdale Mh S/D 251 122 -
Jacob`s View S/D 238 8 -
Bethel Lutheran Church 225 62 -
Country Valley Mh S/D 213 94 -
Shamrock Park S/D 200 97 -
Lake Hickory RV Resort 200 58 -
Olivet Baptist Church 200 55 -
Greenfield S/D 193 37 -
Bunker Hill Estates S/D 178 516 -
Glencroft S/D 178 10 -
Clearview Acres S/D 170 181 -
Prestige Heights 170 66 -
Shangri-La S/D 170 669 Clean
Oxford Park Water System 163 304 -
Jamestowne S/D Water System 163 128 -
Sherwood Forest S/D 160 44 -
Greenbriar S/D Water System 158 257 -
Hawks Ridge S/D 152 9 -
Jones Fish Camp 150 45 -
Littles Family Campground 150 33 -
Camp Dogwood 150 15 -
Duke Energy-Marshall Steam Station 150 5 -
Sedgefield S/D 145 10 -
Lake Norman Motel 144 3 -
Spencer RD Park 142 137 -
Friendship Methodist Church 140 3 -
Homestead Park S/D 137 248 -
Providence Baptist Church 135 21 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Catawba County

Cross-state counties nearest Catawba County on flagged-system share (90.5%) and cumulative violation count (13,944). 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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