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Clay County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC043 · Clay County 28 sys · 2,363 viol · #2879/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 82.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.8% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2879/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +2.1 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 28 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dare County ( -2.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Clay County ranks #2,879 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #100 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Clay County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 82.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 2.8% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Clay County . Population served ranks #2,879 of 3,254 · #100 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Clay County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Clay · this county Polk · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 80% 82.1% 84.3% 84.6% 85.2% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Clay County

Cross-state counties nearest Clay County on flagged-system share (82.1%) and cumulative violation count (2,363). 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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