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Gates County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC073 · Gates County 2 sys · 58 viol · #2233/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 50.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 0.0% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2233/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 25.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 2 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Pasquotank County (+ 25 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Gates County ranks #2,233 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #85 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Gates County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 50.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 0.0% 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 #2,233 of 3,254 · #85 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Gates County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · this county · lowest Beaufort · near Clay · near 50% 75% 78.6% 80% 82.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Gates County Water System 11,621 58 Clean
Dollar General #22761 25 0 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Gates County

Cross-state counties nearest Gates County on flagged-system share (50.0%) and cumulative violation count (58). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar violation load

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

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

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