Community Water System · PWSID NC0465015

Carolina Beach Water System

Serves 6,864 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCarolina Beach, 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 1992: 271 violations. 263 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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

263Missed or late test1 open

8Notice or report

More violations on record than 99% 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

One square ≈ 22 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

97% missed or late test · 2633% notice or report · 8

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.7 ppb

3.6 ppb

1 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (1)

2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2022-04-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2020-01-01Chlordane ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Ethylene Dibromide ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Pentachlorophenol ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Benzo(a)pyrene ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Hexachlorobenzene ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-012, 4, 5-Tp ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-012, 4-D ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxide ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Heptachlor ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Lasso ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Atrazine ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Carbofuran ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Hexachlorocyclopentadiene ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Dinoseb ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Picloram ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Simazine ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Oxamyl ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

Show the other 38 entries

2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Dalapon ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Toxaphene ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Methoxychlor ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Bhc-Gamma ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01Endrin ×9Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2020-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2020-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
2008-04-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
2008-01-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
1992-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served	6,864
Service connections	5,460
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Carolina Beach
EPA ZIP on file	28428

Areas served

Carolina Beach, New Hanover County

Reading this record

Carolina Beach Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 6,864 people in Carolina Beach, 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.