Pitt County, North Carolina: drinking water report. Pitt County – Greenville – serves about 180,000 residents in eastern North Carolina.
Pitt County – Greenville – serves about 180,000 residents in eastern North Carolina. Greenville Utilities Commission draws from the Tar River. The county is home to East Carolina University and serves as the regional medical and commercial hub for the Coastal Plain.
The Tar River provides a generally adequate surface water source, though agricultural runoff from the surrounding tobacco and row crop farming region contributes nutrients and pesticides to the watershed. UCMR5 data shows low-level PFAS detections in the Greenville system.
According to NC DEQ's 2024 monitoring data, county systems met federal standards. The Coastal Plain setting means groundwater in some parts of the county carries naturally elevated iron and manganese, which affect taste but are not health hazards at typical concentrations.
Pitt County's water quality is adequate. Agricultural influence on the watershed and taste-related mineral content are the main factors.
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Drinking water is one exposure route. These federal datasets also cover Pitt County, NC.
The EPA places Pitt County, NC in Zone 3 - the EPA's lowest-risk category, with a predicted average indoor radon level below 2 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.
31% of homes in Pitt County, NC were built before 1980, and 5% 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 Pitt County, NC averages 6.5 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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