Community Water System · PWSID NC0181020

Town of Lake Lure

Serves 1,176 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentLake Lure, North Carolina
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On record since 1999: 48 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 37 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
10Missed or late test
37Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Notice or report: 120002002 · Missed or late test: 12003 · Notice or report: 42003 · Notice or report: 42004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 22008 · Missed or late test: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222009 · Notice or report: 222010 · Notice or report: 1201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · 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.
2% treatment lapse · 121% missed or late test · 1077% notice or report · 37

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

11 ppb
8 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2010-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2009-10-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2009-08-06Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2009-06-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2009-04-26Public Notice ×17PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2008-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2008-04-02Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  18. 2008-03-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2008-01-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2007-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2003-04-05Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2003-01-26Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2002-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,176
Service connections463
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLake Lure
EPA ZIP on file28746

Areas served

  • Lake Lure, Rutherford County

Reading this record

Town of Lake Lure is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,176 people in Lake Lure, 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.