Transient Non-Community · PWSID FL2214201

Family Dollar #10718 - Bell

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMatthews, North Carolina
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2014: 18 violations. 16 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-02-01.

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
16Missed or late test
2Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 87% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 220152019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 1120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
89% missed or late test · 1611% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2014-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2014-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-02-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-12-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  6. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2020-07-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  13. 2020-04-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  14. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2014-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMatthews
EPA ZIP on file28105

Areas served

  • Bell, Gilchrist County

Reading this record

Family Dollar #10718 - Bell is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Matthews, 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.