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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NC0118588

Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba

Operator location Catawba, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 39 people served; 27 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

39
People served (this PWS)
27
EPA violations (this PWS)
3
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba standing, mid SDWIS violation third

39 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba lands in the middle third by violation volume (27), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (39; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

27
Total EPA violations on record
11%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
39
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Catawba
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
19
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 12 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2013
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 1996
Public Notice Other 3 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba has 27 recorded EPA violations, 39% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 60% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 27), 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)

27 Lower than most fewer violations than 60% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba

EPA SDWIS lists 39 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

27 violations · 39 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Pisgah Methodist Church Catawba

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater