Transient Non-Community · PWSID NC0319489

Alston Chapel United Holy Church

Serves 175 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePittsboro, North Carolina
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2002: 36 violations. 3 missed or late tests · 33 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-05-09.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
33Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in North Carolina. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2002 · Notice or report: 22002 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 52003 · Notice or report: 52003 · Notice or report: 52003 · Notice or report: 52003 · Notice or report: 52004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 320052007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% missed or late test · 392% notice or report · 33

Across North Carolina, 39% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2014-02-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-05-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2015-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-02-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2013-09-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2013-08-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2013-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-06-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2011-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2011-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2010-08-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2010-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2010-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2009-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2009-04-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2009-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2008-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2008-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2007-08-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2007-06-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2007-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2005-11-20Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2005-05-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2005-02-16Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2004-11-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 10 entries
  1. 2004-05-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2004-02-29Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2004-02-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2003-11-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2003-08-13Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2003-05-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2003-02-22Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2003-02-16Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2002-11-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2002-08-19Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served175
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPittsboro
EPA ZIP on file27312

Areas served

  • Pittsboro, Chatham County

Reading this record

Alston Chapel United Holy Church is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 175 people in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.