EAST ARCADIA, TOWN OF

Water Quality Snapshot: EAST ARCADIA, TOWN OF

EAST ARCADIA, TOWN OF is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 633 residents in RIEGEL WOOD, North Carolina (Bladen County) through 253 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 451 total violations for this system , of which 21 (5%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 340 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Lead and Copper Rule, recorded in 37 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across North Carolina, EPA tracks 5,020 public water systems serving 9,877,724 people, with 524,053 cumulative violations and 38,492 health-based violations on record. About 93% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 104.4 violations. EAST ARCADIA, TOWN OF's 451 violations sit above the North Carolina average. Statewide, 174 of 287 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (60.6%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.