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Stanly County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC167 · Stanly County 29 sys · 2,874 viol · #956/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 96.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 40.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #956/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 59%
  • SYS-SMALL 29 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Cumberland County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Stanly County ranks #956 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #46 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Stanly County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 96.6% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 40.7% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #956 of 3,254 · #46 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Stanly County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Nash · near Cumberland · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 96.3% 96.3% 96.6% 96.7% 96.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Albemarle, City Of 18,396 97 Detected
Stanly Co-West Stanly Dist 9,939 273 Detected
Pfeiffer-N Stanly Water Assoc 4,513 40 Detected
Norwood, Town Of 4,323 156 Detected
Stanly Co-Aquadale Dist 3,632 179 -
Oakboro, Town Of 3,173 443 -
Stanly Co-Palestine-Badin Dist 1,964 88 -
Stanly Co-Piney Point Dist 1,013 144 -
Stanfield #3-Polk Ford/Renee Ford 854 218 -
Stanly Co-Millingport Dist 709 94 -
Stanfield #1-Biglick RD 302 135 -
Lighthouse Baptist Church 170 79 -
Stanly Co-Badin RD Dist 140 141 -
Canton Bapt Church 135 60 -
Canton Heights MHP 132 79 -
Kinza Memorial Baptist Church 100 31 -
Lakeview Baptist Church 100 62 -
Plyler Baptist Church 50 54 -
Morrow Mtn St Park-Residence 25 33 -
Barbee`s Grove Church 25 41 -
Piney Point Golf Club 25 91 -
Morrow Mtn St Park-Picnic Area 25 15 -
Morrow Mtn St Park-Hattaway 25 25 -
Fellowship Baptist Church 25 6 -
Albemarle Wesleyan Church 25 204 -
Indian Hill Presbyterian Ch 25 40 -
Uwharrie Vineyards 25 41 -
Philadelphia Baptist Church 25 0 -
Seventh Day Adventist Church 25 5 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Mid-flagged peers for Stanly County

Cross-state counties nearest Stanly County on flagged-system share (96.6%) and cumulative violation count (2,874). 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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