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Surry County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC171 · Surry County 115 sys · 10,400 viol · #1340/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 93.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.4% health
  • RANK-MID #1340/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 96%
  • SYS-MID 115 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Watauga County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Surry County ranks #1,340 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #63 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Surry County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 93.9% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 4.4% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,340 of 3,254 · #63 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Surry County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest McDowell · near Granville · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 93.8% 93.8% 93.9% 94.1% 94.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Mount Airy, City Of 10,314 29 Clean
Elkin, Town Of 4,076 43 Clean
Dobson, Town Of 2,615 129 -
Pilot Mountain, Town Of 1,976 273 -
Raven Knob Boy Scout Camp 900 0 -
Pilot Mountain St Pk Campground 800 17 -
Wedgewood/Town and Country Woods 587 162 -
Hillcrest/McBride Heights S/D 491 157 -
Cedar Ridge Elem School 410 30 -
Hollows Water System (The) 378 169 -
Homeplace Recreational Park 358 53 -
Copeland Elementary School 329 44 -
Woodbridge S/D 318 3 -
Shoals Elem School 296 31 -
Westfield Elem School 245 24 -
Greenfield Water System 244 224 -
Mountain Park Elem School 224 32 -
Mt Airy 1st Pent Holiness Ch 210 39 -
Colonial Woods Water System 206 174 -
DOT-Surry Co I-77 Weigh St Nbl 200 34 -
DOT-Surry Co I-77 Weigh St Sbl 200 67 -
Mt Pleasant Baptist Church No 2 170 15 -
Farm Water System (The) 160 136 -
Windgate S/D 158 25 -
Hickory Creek S/D 158 11 -
Inglewood Water System 150 104 -
Pine Lakes S/D 145 83 -
Indian Grove Baptist Church 140 29 -
South Ridge S/D 135 3 -
Pine Hill Church 125 47 -
Woodcreek S/D 122 173 -
Grace Academy of Mt Airy 117 391 -
Walnut Tree S/D 112 163 -
Orchard View Park 109 1,853 -
Ararat River Campground 100 54 -
Jessup Grove Baptist Church 100 26 -
Blues Grove Baptist Church Inc 100 0 -
Charity Hill Baptist Church 100 48 -
New Hope Baptist Church 100 36 -
Anchored in Jesus Baptist 100 9 -
Reeves Woods 99 103 -
Hardy Bros Inc 92 0 -
Allen Woods Village 81 163 -
The Peoples Church 80 19 -
Union Hill Friends Meeting 75 5 -
Zephyr Missionary Baptist Ch 75 72 -
Pine Ridge Baptist Church 75 8 -
Second Chance Church 75 12 -
Bannertown Hills S/D 74 177 -
Snow Hill Water System 74 108 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Mid-flagged peers for Surry County

Cross-state counties nearest Surry County on flagged-system share (93.9%) and cumulative violation count (10,400). 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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