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Community Water System · PWS NC0285025

Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth

Operator location Danbury, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 420 people served; 158 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

420
People served (this PWS)
158
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third

420 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (158), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (420; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

158
Total EPA violations on record
6%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
420
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
Local
Connections
168
County
Stokes
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
114
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 44 2020
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 43 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 19 2007
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 15 2006
Public Notice Other 15 2014
Chlorine MR 8 2007
TTHM MCL 5 2011
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth has 158 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 158), 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)

158 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth

EPA SDWIS lists 420 people served and 168 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

158 violations · 420 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 Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth

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