Community Water System · PWSID NC0326035

Falcon Water System

Serves 714 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentFalcon, North Carolina

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On record since 2001: 13 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-03-18.

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

4Missed or late test

9Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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 = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

31% missed or late test · 469% notice or report · 9

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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2022-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-12-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-10-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2020-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2007-04-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	714
Service connections	266
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Falcon
EPA ZIP on file	28342

Areas served

Falcon, Cumberland County

Reading this record

Falcon Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 714 people in Falcon, 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.