Community Water System · PWSID NC0235030

Franklin County Water & Sewer

Serves 26,060 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentYoungsville, North Carolina
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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: 21 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 11 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test3 open
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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 · Missed or late test: 120002003 · Notice or report: 12005 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 25% treatment lapse · 152% missed or late test · 1133% notice or report · 7

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2025-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0610 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2023-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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

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0 ppb
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Open now (3)

  1. 2025-02-28Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  2. 2024-11-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  3. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-02-28Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  3. 2024-11-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptOpen
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2023-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-02-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-02-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2009-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2007-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2006-01-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2003-04-05Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served26,060
Service connections9,778
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityYoungsville
EPA ZIP on file27596

Areas served

  • Franklinton, Franklin County

Reading this record

Franklin County Water & Sewer is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 26,060 people in Youngsville, 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.