Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NC0106478
Riverside Elem School
Operator location Newland, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 150 people served; 62 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 150
- People served (this PWS)
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Riverside Elem School standing, mid SDWIS violation third
150 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Riverside Elem School lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (150; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 62
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 150
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Avery
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 56
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 20 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 10 | 2012 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2011 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Riverside Elem School has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 62), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Riverside Elem School
EPA SDWIS lists 150 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 150 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Riverside Elem School
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in North Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Carolina systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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