Community Water System · PWSID NC0188127

Sapphire Lakes Development

Serves 724 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateRosman, 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 1999: 27 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests · 21 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test1 open
21Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% 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 · Notice or report: 120002003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 220052008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 420102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 119% missed or late test · 578% notice or report · 21

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

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

4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  6. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2015-05-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2010-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2010-06-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2010-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2010-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2009-10-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2008-05-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2008-04-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  21. 2008-03-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2004-03-10Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2003-05-07Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served724
Service connections334
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityRosman
EPA ZIP on file28772

Areas served

  • Sapphire, Transylvania County

Reading this record

Sapphire Lakes Development is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 724 people in Rosman, 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.