Community Water System · PWSID NC0180065

City of Kannapolis

Serves 54,757 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentKannapolis, North Carolina
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On record since 1999: 34 violations. 1 missed or late test · 33 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-07-01.

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
1Missed or late test
33Notice or report

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

1999 · Notice or report: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 32003 · Notice or report: 32004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42005 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 182009 · Notice or report: 1820102011 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% missed or late test · 197% notice or report · 33

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

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2009-04-26Public Notice ×18PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2008-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2007-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2007-02-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2004-08-19Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2004-04-26Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2004-02-15Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2004-02-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2003-09-29Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served54,757
Service connections21,588
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityKannapolis
EPA ZIP on file28081

Areas served

  • Kannapolis, Rowan County

Reading this record

City of Kannapolis is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 54,757 people in Kannapolis, 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.