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Wilkes County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC193 · Wilkes County 89 sys · 3,289 viol · #951/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 6.3% health
  • RANK-UPPER #951/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-MID 28.6% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 91%
  • SYS-MID 89 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wilkes County ranks #951 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #45 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wilkes County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 6.3% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 28.6% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #951 of 3,254 · #45 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wilkes County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Randolph · near Wilkes · this county Tyrrell · highest 50% 90.5% 90.5% 90.9% 91% 91.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
West Wilkes Wtr Association Inc 12,573 11 Detected
Blue Ridge Water Association 8,486 10 Detected
Mulberry-Fairplains Wtr Assoc 8,150 15 Clean
North Wilkesboro, Town Of 4,265 147 Clean
Wilkesboro, Town Of 3,643 0 Clean
Broadway Water Association 3,556 164 Clean
Moravian Falls Water System 3,455 28 Clean
Ronda, Town Of 938 68 -
Blue Ridge Mtn Club 685 19 -
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 400 12 -
Ronda-Clingman Elem School 300 89 -
Greenstreet Mtn Campground Resort 250 0 -
Stone Mtn State Park - Campground 236 5 -
Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church 230 9 -
Lewis Fork Baptist Church 175 76 -
Boomer-Ferguson Elem School 175 94 -
Bandits Roost Park Area A 142 55 -
Wilkes Skyline Marina 127 82 -
The Ridge 102 1 -
Bandits Roost Park Area B 102 14 -
Cranberry Baptist Church 100 78 -
Round Hill Baptist Church 100 7 -
Cameron Ridge Treatment Center 92 4 -
New Hope Baptist Church 80 55 -
Traphill Elem School 75 27 -
Saddlebrook Restaurant & Grill 75 23 -
Warrior Creek Park Area F W-16 56 44 -
Warrior Creek Park Sites 1-21 51 36 -
Warrior Creek Park Area F W17 50 22 -
Fort Hamby Park 50 21 -
Piney Grove Baptist Church 50 17 -
The Ridge-Stables 50 10 -
Campground Grill 50 0 -
New Light Baptist Church No 2 45 25 -
Eckerd of Boomer 33 89 -
Knobbs Baptist Church 25 33 -
Benham Baptist Church 25 18 -
Zion Hill Baptist Church 25 8 -
Walnut Grove Baptist Church 25 3 -
Sharon Walker Baptist Church 25 23 -
Traphill Grocery 25 21 -
Stone Mtn State Park - Comfort Station 25 5 -
Welcome Home Baptist Ch 25 26 -
Union Baptist Church 25 126 -
Rock Springs Baptist Church 25 49 -
Roaring Gap Bapt Church 25 56 -
Traphill Baptist Church 25 23 -
Goshen Baptist Church 25 14 -
Wilkes Faith Church 25 86 -
Piney Ridge Baptist Church 25 15 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Wilkes County

Cross-state counties nearest Wilkes County on flagged-system share (91.0%) and cumulative violation count (3,289). 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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