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Official source aggregationWater quality in Henderson, NC 27536
Regional hardness evidence, possible serving systems, EPA compliance history, and the measurements that are—and are not—available for Vance County.
Historical measurement record needs context
- Largest possible serving system
- Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr
- Source water
- Surface water + Groundwater
- County
- Vance County
- Profile updated
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Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.
Utility hardness unavailable in this index
Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.
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What the current records say
EPA quarter 2026Q2
All possible systems
No active flag
0 active health-based records
Measurements by utility
Each result belongs to a specific system.
Utility match
6 systems
Serves 14,937 people system-wide
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Your utility’s measurements and compliance records
These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.
EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr
NC0291010 · Surface water · 14,937 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (2)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
TTHM
EPA SDWIS reported health-based violation
- Reported level
- 0.086 MG/L
- Maximum contaminant level
- 0.08 MG/L
108% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021
Violation history (8)
| Rule | Status | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | Resolved | Jan 1, 2024 to Mar 11, 2024 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Aug 29, 2023 to Oct 19, 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | Resolved | Apr 1, 2022 to Jun 7, 2022 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Oct 10, 2021 to Oct 10, 2021 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | Resolved | Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Jul 1, 2021 to Sep 30, 2021 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Apr 1, 2021 to Jun 30, 2021 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Jan 1, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021 |
Vance Co Water District Phase 1
NC4091008 · Surface water · 1,580 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (1)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026
Violation history (12)
| Rule | Status | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | Resolved | Aug 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2025 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jun 15, 2025 to Jun 17, 2025 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jun 15, 2025 to Jun 17, 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024 |
| Chlorine | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2024 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022 |
Vance Co Water District Phase 2
NC4091010 · Surface water · 1,376 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (2)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
TTHM
EPA SDWIS reported health-based violation
- Reported level
- 0.082 MG/L
- Maximum contaminant level
- 0.08 MG/L
102% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025
Violation history (18)
| Rule | Status | Period |
|---|---|---|
| TTHM | Addressed | Sep 8, 2025 |
| Chlorine | Resolved | Aug 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jul 21, 2025 to Aug 7, 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jun 15, 2025 to Jun 17, 2025 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jun 15, 2025 to Jun 17, 2025 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Apr 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025 |
| TTHM | Addressed | Feb 26, 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | Resolved | Jan 1, 2025 to Sep 4, 2025 |
| TTHMHealth-based | Resolved | Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2024 |
| Chlorine | Resolved | Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 16, 2022 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022 |
Knoll Terrace Mhp
NC0291102 · Groundwater · 254 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (2)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Copper (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 1.41 mg/L
- Action level
- 1.3 mg/L
108% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jul 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 1993
Violation history (36)
| Rule | Status | Period |
|---|---|---|
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONSHealth-based | Resolved | Oct 17, 2024 to Oct 17, 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | Resolved | Oct 17, 2024 to Oct 17, 2024 |
| Public Notice | Addressed | Mar 1, 2024 |
| Nitrate | Resolved | Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024 |
| TTHM | Resolved | May 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | May 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Resolved | Feb 11, 2023 to Feb 16, 2023 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Benzene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Toluene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Ethylbenzene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Styrene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Vinyl chloride | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Xylenes, Total | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Trichloroethylene | Resolved | Jan 1, 2023 to Jul 4, 2023 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Nov 13, 2022 to Feb 9, 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | Resolved | Jan 1, 2022 to Apr 7, 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Nov 1, 2021 to Jan 31, 2022 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Nov 1, 2021 to Jan 31, 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | Resolved | Aug 1, 2021 to Oct 31, 2021 |
| TTHM | Resolved | Aug 1, 2021 to Oct 31, 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Resolved | Jul 1, 2021 to Oct 14, 2021 |
| Public Notice | Resolved | Jan 31, 2021 to Jun 21, 2021 |
Hunter`s Ridge S/d
NC0291120 · Groundwater · 81 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (2)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Copper (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 1.56 mg/L
- Action level
- 1.3 mg/L
120% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2013
Violation history (0)
No record returned in this imported window. This is not a guarantee of tap-water safety.
Edgewood Estates
NC0291104 · Groundwater · 48 people served system-wide
The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.
No active health-based record in this imported snapshot
Find this utility’s official report →Measurements (1)
An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.
Lead (90th percentile)
EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples
- Reported level
- 0 mg/L
- Action level
- 0.015 mg/L
0% of the listed benchmark
Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Violation history (3)
| Rule | Status | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | Addressed | Jan 1, 2025 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONSHealth-based | Resolved | Oct 17, 2024 to Dec 16, 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | Resolved | Oct 17, 2024 to Dec 16, 2024 |
Hardness estimate unavailable
No responsible local estimate yet
We did not find enough qualifying recent USGS hardness observations within 25 miles of this ZIP centroid. We leave the value blank instead of substituting a state average. Ask the serving utility or test the household tap for a property-specific result.
Evidence-first next steps
Confirm the problem before choosing treatment
This profile can help you ask the right question. It cannot select equipment for a property without a current result from the serving utility or the tap.
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Frequently asked
Water questions for Henderson
Is tap water safe in Henderson?+
EPA ECHO shows no active health-based violation for the associated systems in this reporting snapshot. This does not prove every contaminant is absent; federal records can lag and household plumbing can change tap conditions.
How hard is the water?+
Utility-reported hardness is unavailable in this index. Regional samples do not establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.
Do I need a water softener?+
Confirm hardness at your tap and consider actual scale or spotting before choosing treatment. Regional environmental values cannot determine whether you need a softener. A softener addresses hardness, not every contaminant.