Community Water System · PWS NC0161015
Bakersville, Town Of
Operator location Bakersville, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 725 people served; 430 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 725
- People served (this PWS)
- 430
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bakersville, Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
725 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%). Population rank #23,858 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bakersville, Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (430), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (725; 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.
- #23,858 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #567 of 713
- Population · NC
- 430
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- 290
- County
- Mitchell
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 387
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 19 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 14 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 12 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 11 | 1993 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2020 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 9 | 2020 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Endrin | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1992 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 1993 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2003 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Dalapon | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Picloram | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 5 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bakersville, Town Of has 430 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 430), and it ranks #23,858 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)
430 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Bakersville, Town Of
EPA SDWIS lists 725 people served and 290 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
430 violations · 725 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bakersville, Town Of
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