Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr, NC Water Quality
What's in Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr's water?
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,937 people get their water from it, across 8,840 connections.
How this compares nationally
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr has 36 violations on record in total, 13 of them health-based - ranking it 1,450th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
Against the NC average
NC's 360 covered systems average 5.7 health-based violations each; Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr carries 13, more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-05-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2021-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr's record does not cover
This is what Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 36 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.