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Burke County, NC drinking water systems

15 community water systems serve Burke County, NC, reporting 73,953 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

3 of them (20%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

3 rely mainly on groundwater and 12 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

14 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 2 lead lines, 40 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 20,483 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in Burke County, NC by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
15
People served, sum of each system's own figure
73,953
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
3
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
2

Water systems serving Burke County

15 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of Morganton Morganton, Salem and 1 more and land outside them 27,221 Surface water 0 0 0
Town of Valdese Valdese 13,571 Surface water 0 0 0
Icard Township Water Corp Icard, Connelly Springs and 1 more 7,821 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Brentwood Water Association Salem and Glen Alpine and land outside them 6,038 Purchased surface water 0 0 1
Brentwood-Jamestown Road Morganton and land outside it 6,035 Purchased surface water 0 0 1
Burke Co. Water-South Morganton and land outside it 5,207 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Town of Drexel Drexel and land outside it 3,302 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Town of Rutherford College Rutherford College and land outside it 2,083 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Town of Rhodhiss Rhodhiss 867 Purchased surface water 3 2 No inventory
Burke Co-Airport Rhodhiss Outside cities and towns 559 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Burke County Omara Rutherford College 350 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
East Shores S/D Morganton and land outside it 350 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Gingercake Acres Outside cities and towns 270 Groundwater 0 0 0
Pine Mountain Lakes S/D Outside cities and towns 239 Groundwater 0 0 0
Cliftwood West Water System Outside cities and towns 40 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Burke County

3 systems

The service area maps EPA has for these systems do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Jonas Ridge Rest Home County on record 80 Groundwater 1 0 0
South Mountain Childrens Home County on record 80 Groundwater 0 1 0
Rhodhiss Town of Henry St County on record 70 Purchased surface water 1 0 0

Cities and towns in Burke County

10 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations