Transient Non-Community · PWSID NC0156513

Providence Umc

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMarion, North Carolina
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On record since 2003: 8 violations. 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2008-03-21.

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
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 67% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52007 · Notice or report: 52008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2008-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2008-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2007-12-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2007-08-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2007-07-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2007-06-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2007-03-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2003-08-13Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMarion
EPA ZIP on file28752

Areas served

  • Marion, Mcdowell County

Reading this record

Providence Umc is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Marion, 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.