That covers what has been measured and assessed — not what hasn't. Two things could not be determined from the record.
What EPA and state records show about this community water system — compliance, PFAS testing, lead sampling, and where its water comes from. Serving about 5,080 people in Catawba County.
5,080people served
0health-based violations since 2021
0without recorded resolution
0administrative (paperwork) records
What the records flag
No issues on record
No health-based violations on record since 2021
Records can lag by up to a quarter, and they don't cover your home's own plumbing.
Official record for your water system · U.S. EPA — Safe Drinking Water Act compliance records · retrieved 2026-08-16 · source
Lead & copper sampling
Lead: latest 90th-percentile result 0 ppb — below the 10 ppb action level (sampled 2025-12-31, 1 result in the 10-year window).
The 90th-percentile result means 9 out of 10 sampled homes were at or below this level. It measures the water system's corrosion control — it cannot tell you whether your own home's plumbing adds lead. Results older than 10 years, future-dated compliance periods, and physically implausible values are excluded.
PFAS testing
No UCMR5 results on file for this system. Systems serving under 3,300 people generally weren't required to test — this is absence of testing, not absence of PFAS.
Where the water comes from
Surface water.
Buys water from City of Conover, whose recent record shows no unresolved health-based violations.
What the record doesn’t establish
Whether this system has PFAS — systems serving under 3,300 people generally weren't required to test.
Whether your home's own plumbing adds lead or copper — no dataset covers indoor pipes.
Common questions
Does Southeast Catawba County have drinking water violations?
No health-based violations on record since 2021. Records can lag by up to a quarter, and they don't cover building plumbing.
Has Southeast Catawba County been tested for PFAS?
No UCMR5 results are on file for this system — absence of testing, not absence of PFAS.
How many people does Southeast Catawba County serve?
EPA records list about 5,080 people served in Catawba. Service-area boundaries have known errors — a water bill is the ground truth for any single address.
Records lag their agencies' refresh cycles — a recent change may not appear yet. Absence from a dataset is absence of a record, never evidence that water is clean.
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Search any address this system serves for the full report — the waters around it, what's permitted upstream, and every term explained.