Community Water System · PWSID NC0368182

The Trails S/D

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePittsboro, North Carolina
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On record since 1993: 57 violations. 8 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 20 missed or late tests · 27 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-11.

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

8Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
20Missed or late test
27Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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: 119951999 · Notice or report: 12000 · Treatment lapse: 22000 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Missed or late test: 12002 · Notice or report: 42002 · Notice or report: 42003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 42005 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 320052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102012 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 84% treatment lapse · 235% missed or late test · 2047% notice or report · 27

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)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1170 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2018-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2018-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.8×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.2290 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (2.9×)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1170 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.5×)2017-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.3290 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (5.5×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1150 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)
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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

66 ppb
5 ppb
4 ppb
4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2021-08-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1170 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.2290 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  24. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  25. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
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  1. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1170 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-08-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-08-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3290 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1150 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2010-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2009-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2009-10-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2008-01-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2005-11-20Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2005-04-02Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2004-05-24Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2004-03-16Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2004-03-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2002-11-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2002-07-13Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2002-06-11Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2002-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  28. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  30. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  31. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  32. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections95
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPittsboro
EPA ZIP on file27312

Areas served

  • Chapel Hill, Orange County

Reading this record

The Trails S/D is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Pittsboro, 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.