Public water system record
City of Winston-Salem
Serves Clemmons, Winston-Salem, Kernersville and 6 more places, Forsyth County, NC · 388,060 people served
Federal records show no health-based violations and 3 monitoring/reporting issues for City of Winston-Salem in the last ten years.
System profile
- Health-based violations, last 10 years
- 0
- Resolved
- 0
- Unresolved
- 0
- Any acute record
- No
- Monitoring issues, last 10 years
- 3
Key facts
- City of Winston-Salem draws water from 3 surface water intakes.
- Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by North Carolina, July 2021.
- Record on file since 1988, with 0 health-based violations before October 20, 2016.
- Lead pipe inventory: 51 lead and 3,194 unknown out of 160,201 service lines.
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Health-based violations
Since October 2016Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.
None since October 2016.
Monitoring and reporting issues
Since October 2016Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.
| Issue | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and reporting
|
Jul 1, 2021 | Resolved |
|
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and reporting
|
Dec 1, 2019 | Resolved |
|
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and reporting
|
Nov 1, 2019 | Resolved |
Full record since 1988
EPA's records for City of Winston-Salem go back to 1988. Before October 20, 2016 they list no health-based violations and 30 monitoring or reporting violations.
| Violations that began in | Health-based | Monitoring and reporting |
|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0 | 16 |
| 1990s | 0 | 13 |
| 2000s | 0 | 1 |
| October 20, 2016 to 2019 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020s | 0 | 1 |
Enforcement actions
North Carolina regulators took 2 formal enforcement actions against City of Winston-Salem between 2019 and 2021. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in July 2021.
| Date | By | Action | Violations covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2021 | North Carolina | Compliance order (no penalty) | 1 violation: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule |
| Dec 20, 2019 | North Carolina | Compliance order (no penalty) | 2 violations: Surface Water Treatment Rule |
Where the water comes from
City of Winston-Salem draws water from 3 surface water intakes. It also has an emergency connection to Davidson Water Inc. 5 other community water systems buy water from City of Winston-Salem. 3 other public water systems have emergency connections to City of Winston-Salem.
Emergency or part-time connections to
- Davidson Water Inc Welcome, NC
Community systems that buy water from it
- Rocklyn Subdivision Phase 2 Birmingham, AL
- Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth Danbury, NC
- Town of Stokesdale Stokesdale, NC
- Yadkin County - East Bend Yadkinville, NC
- Yorktown S/D Charlotte, NC
Annual water quality report
City of Winston-Salem must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.
Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.
Find a posted report with EPA's Consumer Confidence Report search
Testing your own water
To test the water at your tap, or a private well this record does not cover, use a laboratory certified for drinking water by North Carolina.
Certified drinking water labs by state EPA guidance for private wells