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Community Water System · PWS NC0469020

Oriental Water System

Operator location Oriental, North Carolina - 0% of 60 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 1,136 served per SDWIS.

1,136
People served (this PWS)
60
EPA violations (this PWS)
0
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Oriental Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third

0% of 60 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #18,336 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Oriental Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,136 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,336 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#457 of 713
Population · NC
60
Total EPA violations on record
0%
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
Local
Connections
823
County
Pamlico
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
42
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 14 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 13 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 10 1993
Chloramine MR 5 2016
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2005

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Oriental Water System has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 60), and it ranks #18,336 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)

60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Oriental Water System

0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0469020.

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

Nationwide peers

60 violations · 1,136 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

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

4 peers

What to do with Oriental Water System

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