Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NC0235488

Nelson Headstart Daycare

Serves 58 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHenderson, North CarolinaServes a school or daycare
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 1993: 30 violations. 3 over the limit · 25 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
25Missed or late test3 open
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

1993 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052009 · Notice or report: 1201020152020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Missed or late test: 212025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 383% missed or late test · 257% notice or report · 2

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×+Carbon tetrachloride2021-10-01 · Carbon tetrachloride: measured 0.0300 MG/L vs limit 0.005000 MG/L (6.0×)2021-07-01 · Carbon tetrachloride: measured 0.0300 MG/L vs limit 0.005000 MG/L (6.0×)2021-04-01 · Carbon tetrachloride: measured 0.0300 MG/L vs limit 0.005000 MG/L (6.0×)
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 (3)

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2023-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-04-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-04-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2023-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2023-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  24. 2021-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2021-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0300 MG/L · limit 0.005000 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2021-07-01Carbon tetrachlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0300 MG/L · limit 0.005000 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.0300 MG/L · limit 0.005000 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2009-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

System details

Population served58
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHenderson
EPA ZIP on file27536

Areas served

  • Louisburg, Franklin County

Reading this record

Nelson Headstart Daycare is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 58 people in Henderson, 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.