Community Water System · PWSID NC0498020

Town of Elm City

Serves 1,450 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentElm City, North Carolina
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On record since 1999: 36 violations. 8 over the limit · 12 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

8Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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: 120002002 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 320152018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% over the limit · 833% missed or late test · 1244% notice or report · 16

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)2025-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0930 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2025-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0940 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1010 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2024-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0990 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2024-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0980 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2024-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0960 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0910 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
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

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Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0930 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-03-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2025-01-23Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  5. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0940 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-11-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-10-20Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  9. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1010 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0980 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2023-11-10Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  17. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2023-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2022-02-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-02-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  24. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 11 entries
  1. 2020-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-01-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2012-09-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-08-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,450
Service connections635
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityElm City
EPA ZIP on file27822

Areas served

  • Elm City, Wilson County

Reading this record

Town of Elm City is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,450 people in Elm City, 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.