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Northampton County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC131 · Northampton County 15 sys · 1,420 viol · #1859/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 15.8% health
  • RANK-MID #1859/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 73%
  • SYS-SMALL 15 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Northampton County ranks #1,859 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #76 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Northampton County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 15.8% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,859 of 3,254 · #76 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Northampton County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Forsyth · near Harnett · near 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Northampton--Milwaukee 5,715 146 Clean
Northampton--Lake Gaston 3,984 306 Detected
Northampton--Progressive 2,228 220 -
Northampton--Gaston 1,123 69 -
Rich Square, Town Of 1,067 115 -
Conway, Town Of 887 55 -
Seaboard, Town Of 881 83 -
Woodland, Town Of 747 11 -
Jackson, Town Of 480 30 -
Severn, Town Of 325 127 -
Timberline Shores 224 50 -
Northampton--N Gaston 216 60 -
Sherwood Forest Campgrounds 160 23 -
Stanley Stone Estates 66 92 -
Northampton--W Jackson 33 33 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Mid-flagged peers for Northampton County

Cross-state counties nearest Northampton County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (1,420). 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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