Community Water System · PWS NC0118040
Catawba, Town Of
Operator location Hickory, North Carolina - 38% of 13 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,181 served per SDWIS.
- 1,181
- People served (this PWS)
- 13
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Catawba, Town Of standing, low SDWIS violation third
38% of 13 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,072 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Catawba, Town Of is in the lower third by violation count (13; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 1,181 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,072 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #454 of 713
- Population · NC
- 13
- Total EPA violations on record
- 38%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 480
- County
- Catawba
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 3
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 5 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2007 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | MR | 1 | 1980 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2006 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Catawba, Town Of has 13 recorded EPA violations, 22% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 76% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 13), and it ranks #18,072 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
13 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 76% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Catawba, Town Of
5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0118040.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
13 violations · 1,181 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Catawba, Town Of
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