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Community Water System · PWS NC0351168

Southhills Southwoods SD

Operator location Cary, North Carolina - 82% of 181 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 716 served per SDWIS.

716
People served (this PWS)
181
EPA violations (this PWS)
149
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Southhills Southwoods SD standing, high SDWIS violation third

82% of 181 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 82% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #24,017 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Southhills Southwoods SD sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (181), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (716; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 82% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,017 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#571 of 713
Population · NC
181
Total EPA violations on record
82%
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
Private
Connections
282
County
Johnston
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
149
Monitoring Violations
5
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MCL 103 2007
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MCL 39 2007
Public Notice Other 21 2007
Combined Uranium MCL 7 2004
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 6 2024
Nitrite MR 5 2000

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Southhills Southwoods SD has 181 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 82% of this system's own violations are health-based (149 of 181), and it ranks #24,017 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)

181 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Southhills Southwoods SD

149 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0351168.

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

Nationwide peers

181 violations · 716 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

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Southhills Southwoods SD

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