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Wayne County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC191 · Wayne County 11 sys · 1,280 viol · #502/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #502/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 62.5% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 64%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wayne County ranks #502 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #23 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wayne County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 62.5% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #502 of 3,254 · #23 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wayne County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Randolph · near Wayne · this county Tyrrell · highest 50% 90.5% 90.5% 90.5% 90.9% 91% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Wayne Water Districts 39,403 704 Detected
Goldsboro, City Of 34,959 19 Detected
Wayne Water Districts Purchase 16,302 28 Detected
Fork Township Sanitary District 9,572 29 Clean
Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist 7,793 135 Detected
Seymour Johnson Afb 6,875 34 Detected
Mount Olive, Town Of 4,261 17 Clean
Fork Township Purchase 2,540 0 -
Fremont, Town Of 1,265 93 Clean
Walnut Creek Village 950 176 -
Pikeville, Town Of 896 45 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Wayne County

Cross-state counties nearest Wayne County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (1,280). 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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