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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NC0285430

Sandy Ridge Elem School

Operator location Danbury, North Carolina - 58% of 64 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 215 served per SDWIS.

215
People served (this PWS)
64
EPA violations (this PWS)
37
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sandy Ridge Elem School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

58% of 64 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 58% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Sandy Ridge Elem School lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (215; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 58% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

64
Total EPA violations on record
58%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
215
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
3
County
Stokes
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
16
Treatment Tech Violations
37

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule TT 35 2009
Lead and Copper Rule MR 16 2015
Public Notice Other 9 2014
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sandy Ridge Elem School has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 58% of this system's own violations are health-based (37 of 64), 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)

64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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

Health-based violations on Sandy Ridge Elem School

37 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0285430.

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

Nationwide peers

64 violations · 215 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Sandy Ridge Elem School

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