Community Water System · PWSID MS0680004

East Charleston Water Assn

Serves 211 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Public/PrivateCharleston, Mississippi
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 1999: 16 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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
6Missed or late test1 open
10Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in Mississippi. 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: 1200020052010201520202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
38% missed or late test · 663% notice or report · 10

Across Mississippi, 50% of violations are missed or late tests and 6% 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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

16.8 ppb
16.6 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.4 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.4 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2023-05-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2022-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2021-12-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2021-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2023-05-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-12-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  4. 2022-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  8. 2022-01-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  9. 2021-12-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2021-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  15. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served211
Service connections80
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityCharleston
EPA ZIP on file38921

Areas served

  • Tallahatchie County

Reading this record

East Charleston Water Assn is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 211 people in Charleston, Mississippi. 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.