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Columbus County, NC drinking water systems

14 community water systems serve Columbus County, NC, reporting 31,279 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

6 of them (43%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

12 rely mainly on groundwater and 2 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 269 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 1,906 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Columbus County, NC by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
14
People served, sum of each system's own figure
31,279
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
6
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Columbus County

14 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
Columbus Co Water Districts II, III, V Whiteville and land outside it 10,442 Groundwater 0 0 0
City of Whiteville Whiteville 5,426 Groundwater 1 0 0
Town of Tabor City Tabor City 3,277 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Columbus County Water Dist IV Riegelwood and Delco 2,598 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Lake Waccamaw Lake Waccamaw 2,572 Groundwater 1 0 0
Town of Chadbourn Chadbourn 2,370 Groundwater 1 0 0
Columbus Co Water District I Tabor City and land outside it 1,700 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Town of Fair Bluff Fair Bluff 800 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Bolton Bolton 668 Groundwater 1 1 0
Town of Brunswick Brunswick 495 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Sandyfield Outside cities and towns 439 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Cerro Gordo Cerro Gordo 246 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Boardman Boardman 165 Purchased groundwater 1 0 0
Dutchess Forest S/D Brunswick and land outside it 81 Groundwater 1 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Columbus County

1 system

The service area map EPA has for this system does not line up with its own records. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Lakeland Village S/D County on record 180 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Columbus County

11 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