Community Water System · PWSID NC0496010

City of Goldsboro

Serves 34,959 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentGoldsboro, North Carolina
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On record since 1999: 5 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-10-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 53% 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

1999 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% treatment lapse · 120% missed or late test · 160% notice or report · 3

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2010-01-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  3. 2003-10-03Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served34,959
Service connections15,669
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGoldsboro
EPA ZIP on file27533

Areas served

  • Goldsboro, Wayne County

Reading this record

City of Goldsboro is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 34,959 people in Goldsboro, 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.