Is SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY's water safe to drink?
SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,080, over 2,000 connections.
How this compares nationally
6 total violations and 1 health-based ones put SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY at the 33th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,588 of 12,903.
How SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY compares within NC
SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY's 1 health-based violations sit within the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY is from 2007-12-02 (health-based: 2006-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY'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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for SOUTHEAST CATAWBA COUNTY - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.