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Dare County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC055 · Dare County 15 sys · 1,005 viol · #945/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 80.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.4% health
  • RANK-UPPER #945/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +1.4 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 15 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Beaufort County ( -1.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Dare County ranks #945 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #44 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Dare County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 80.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 8.4% 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 #945 of 3,254 · #44 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Dare County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Dare · this county Burke · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 78.6% 80% 82.1% 84.3% 84.6% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Dare County

Cross-state counties nearest Dare County on flagged-system share (80.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,005). 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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