Community Water System · PWSID NC0235010

Town of Franklinton

Serves 2,732 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentYoungsville, North Carolina
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On record since 1999: 41 violations. 8 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 25 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

8Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
25Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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: 120002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 52005 · Notice or report: 52005 · Notice or report: 52005 · Notice or report: 52005 · Notice or report: 520052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72007 · Notice or report: 72009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 220102015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 82% treatment lapse · 117% missed or late test · 761% notice or report · 25

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)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1000 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0830 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0940 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2021-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-11-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-11-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-02-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1000 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-05-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-02-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  14. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2016-11-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0940 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2016-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2009-11-30Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2007-10-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  25. 2007-07-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2007-05-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2007-03-19Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2007-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2007-01-15Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2006-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2005-10-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2005-07-14Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2005-04-17Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2005-01-13Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,732
Service connections1,270
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityYoungsville
EPA ZIP on file27596

Areas served

  • Franklinton, Franklin County

Reading this record

Town of Franklinton is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,732 people in Youngsville, 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.