Community Water System · PWSID NC5063023

Moore Co Public Utilities-West Moore

Serves 407 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentCarthage, North Carolina
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2015: 5 violations. 2 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 53% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Over the limit: 12024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 240% missed or late test · 220% notice or report · 1

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2024-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

System details

Population served407
Service connections18
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCarthage
EPA ZIP on file28327

Areas served

  • Seagrove, Moore County

Reading this record

Moore Co Public Utilities-West Moore is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 407 people in Carthage, 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.