Alexander County, North Carolina: drinking water report. Alexander County – Taylorsville – serves about 38,000 residents in the western Piedmont.
Alexander County – Taylorsville – serves about 38,000 residents in the western Piedmont. Water comes from local streams and wells. The rural county has limited industrial activity and a primarily agricultural land base.
Alexander County's rural setting means fewer contamination sources than urban or industrialized counties. UCMR5 data shows no significant PFAS detections. According to NC DEQ's 2024 data, county systems met federal standards. Small system capacity and monitoring are the main regulatory considerations.
Alexander County's water quality is good. Rural well owners should test periodically since private wells are not monitored.
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Drinking water is one exposure route. These federal datasets also cover Alexander County, NC.
The EPA places Alexander County, NC in Zone 2 - a moderate-risk category, with a predicted average indoor radon level between 2 and 4 pCi/L. Zone maps predict an area's radon potential from geology and existing indoor readings; they say nothing about a specific house. Testing is the only way to know your own level.
43% of homes in Alexander County, NC were built before 1980, and 11% before 1950. Residential lead paint was banned in 1978, so housing age is the strongest available proxy for lead-paint exposure. This describes the county's housing stock, not any one home.
Modelled annual fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) in Alexander County, NC averages 7.7 µg/m³, within the EPA's annual standard of 9 µg/m³. These are CDC modelled county estimates rather than readings from a specific monitor.
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