Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NC0285556
Piney Grove Middle School
Operator location Danbury, North Carolina - 57% of 35 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 130 served per SDWIS.
- 130
- People served (this PWS)
- 35
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Piney Grove Middle School standing, mid SDWIS violation third
57% of 35 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 57% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Piney Grove Middle School lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (130; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 57% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 35
- Total EPA violations on record
- 57%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 130
- 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
- 1
- County
- Stokes
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 10
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 20
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 18 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 3 | 2022 |
| Nitrite | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Piney Grove Middle School has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 57% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 35), 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)
35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Piney Grove Middle School
20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0285556.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
35 violations · 130 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Piney Grove Middle School
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in North Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Carolina systems
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