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Martin County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC117 · Martin County 21 sys · 1,567 viol · #1889/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 85.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.1% health
  • RANK-MID #1889/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 86%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Martin County ranks #1,889 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #77 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Martin County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 85.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.1% 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 #1,889 of 3,254 · #77 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Martin County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Martin · this county Bertie · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 85.2% 85.7% 85.7% 85.7% 86.2% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Martin County

Cross-state counties nearest Martin County on flagged-system share (85.7%) and cumulative violation count (1,567). 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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