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Rutherford County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC161 · Rutherford County 60 sys · 6,972 viol · #896/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 95.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #896/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 88%
  • SYS-MID 60 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Rutherford County ranks #896 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #42 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Rutherford County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 95.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #896 of 3,254 · #42 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Rutherford County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Macon · near Onslow · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 94.4% 94.7% 95% 95% 95.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Forest City, Town Of 21,521 109 Clean
Broad River Water Authority 18,242 31 Detected
Ellenboro Town Of 2,322 106 -
Concord Comm Water System 1,867 56 -
Fairfield Mountains No 1 1,798 13 -
Lake Lure, Town Of 1,176 1,311 -
Bostic, Town Of 953 84 -
Fairfield Mtns-Apple Valley 950 76 -
Northgate Golden Valley, LLC 850 90 -
Chimney Rock State Park 820 36 -
Daniel Morgan Wtr District-NC 376 43 -
The Mason Jar 300 30 -
Camp Lurecrest 250 116 -
Lake Lure Village Resort 226 349 -
Bridges S/D 200 264 -
Mt View Baptist Church 200 36 -
Lake House Restaurant 200 87 -
Dollar General #23229 200 0 -
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 175 258 -
Grays Creek Baptist Church 175 57 -
Mt Vernon Baptist Church 150 34 -
West Point Baptist Church 150 8 -
Holly Hills S/D 122 82 -
Green Hill Baptist Church 120 55 -
South Mountain Christian Camp Cafeteria 120 0 -
Mountain Creek Baptist Church 117 69 -
Walls Baptist Church 100 55 -
Piney Knob Baptist Church 100 148 -
Welcome Home Baptist Church 100 52 -
Harvest Time Bible Camp 100 58 -
Big Springs Baptist Church 100 40 -
Piedmont Scout Reservation No 2 100 41 -
Firefly Cove 99 51 -
Chimney Rock Village 94 1,161 -
Fairview Baptist Church 90 13 -
Race Path Baptist Church 90 95 -
First Broad Baptist Church 90 49 -
Fork Creek Baptist Church 90 12 -
Bills Creek Baptist Church 75 121 -
Montford Cove Missionary Bapt 75 113 -
Victory Baptist Church 70 67 -
Robertson Creek Fwb Church 65 117 -
Canoe Kitchen and Bar 60 213 -
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church 60 4 -
Wilson Baptist Church 60 93 -
Cane Creek Baptist Church 55 46 -
Riverside Baptist Church 50 144 -
Piedmont Scout Reservation No 3 50 6 -
South Mountain Christian Camp-Office 50 0 -
Broad River Baptist Church 40 67 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Mid-flagged peers for Rutherford County

Cross-state counties nearest Rutherford County on flagged-system share (95.0%) and cumulative violation count (6,972). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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