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Community Water System · PWS NC0156127

Houston House Rest Home

Operator location Glen Alpine, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 40 people served; 266 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

40
People served (this PWS)
266
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Houston House Rest Home standing, high SDWIS violation third

40 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Houston House Rest Home sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (266), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (40; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

266
Total EPA violations on record
3%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
40
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
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
McDowell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
220
Treatment Tech Violations
9

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 34 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 26 2001
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 24 2025
Arsenic MR 18 1993
Nitrate MR 18 1999
Cadmium MR 13 1993
Selenium MR 13 1993
Mercury MR 13 1993
Fluoride MR 13 1993
Chromium MR 13 1993
Barium MR 13 1993
Antimony, Total MR 8 1993
Nickel MR 8 1993
CYANIDE MR 8 1993
Thallium, Total MR 8 1993
Lead and Copper Rule TT 8 2007
Beryllium, Total MR 8 1993
Public Notice Other 7 2020
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 6 1995
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 1 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Houston House Rest Home has 266 recorded EPA violations, 89% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 11% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 266), 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)

266 Higher than most more violations than 89% 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 Houston House Rest Home

EPA SDWIS lists 40 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

EPA SDWIS · PWS NC0156127 NC primacy agency

Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section

Nationwide peers

266 violations · 40 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Houston House Rest Home

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