Backflow Testing in Belews Creek, NC

Water sources around Belews Creek

Belews Creek is a rural, unincorporated community in northeastern Forsyth County near Belews Lake. Public water here is patchy. A City-County planning staff report for a site on Van Hoy Road near the lake found no access to WSFCU water or sewer, but noted that Town of Stokesdale water was available to that parcel. Private wells are evidently common, though no source puts a number on them.

That means three different answers to the backflow question. If your water bill comes from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Utilities, its Cross-Connection Control program applies: owners maintain their assemblies, which are tested at installation and annually by WSFCU-approved testers, and eligible residential irrigation without chemical feed has been on a three-year cycle since September 2024. If you're on Stokesdale water, Stokesdale sets the rules, and they weren't covered by the sources used here, so ask the Town. On a private well, there's no utility test to file.

Some households near Duke Energy's Belews Creek Steam Station received permanent replacement water supplies, either a public water hookup or a filtration system, under the state coal ash law, and NCDEQ reported that work complete in October 2018. A home that got a new public hookup should not still have its old well tied into the same plumbing. Plumbing permits in the Forsyth County part of the area go through the joint Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Inspections Division.

Signs to get help

• You have irrigation on WSFCU water and no idea when it was last tested
• Your home switched to public water but the old well pump still runs
• Lake or pond water is pumped for irrigation near a house line
• An assembly leaks or failed its test

Seasonal notes

Lake-area properties are exposed to wind and open ground, so above-ground assemblies and irrigation piping freeze easily. Drain or cover them before winter, and schedule any required test in spring before irrigation season starts.