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Lenoir County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC107 · Lenoir County 9 sys · 756 viol · #817/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 88.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 6.1% health
  • RANK-UPPER #817/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 56%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Columbus County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Lenoir County ranks #817 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #35 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Lenoir County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 88.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 6.1% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #817 of 3,254 · #35 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Lenoir County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Alexander · near Columbus · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 88.5% 88.5% 88.9% 89.1% 89.4% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Kinston, City Of 27,475 32 Detected
North Lenoir Water Corp 15,494 292 Detected
Deep Run Water Corporation 14,196 17 Detected
La Grange Water System 3,167 72 -
Pink Hill, Town Of 950 185 -
Falling Creek Country Club 250 33 -
Green Acres MHP 229 60 -
Jackson Heights MHP 107 65 -
Neuse Regional Wtr & Swr Auth 0 0 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Lenoir County

Cross-state counties nearest Lenoir County on flagged-system share (88.9%) and cumulative violation count (756). 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
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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