Transient Non-Community · PWSID NC0158485

Metco Tire & Auto Service

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMars Hill, North Carolina
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On record since 2011: 2 violations. 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2011-03-31.

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
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 24% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 2201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2011-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2011-01-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMars Hill
EPA ZIP on file28754

Areas served

  • Mars Hill, Madison County

Reading this record

Metco Tire & Auto Service is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Mars Hill, 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.