Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NC0156436

West Marion Elem School

Serves 449 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMarion, North CarolinaServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 1993: 43 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 29 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-18.

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
3Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test
11Notice or report3 open

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

1993 · Missed or late test: 1199520002002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Treatment lapse: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 367% missed or late test · 2926% notice or report · 11

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.4 mg/L
2.3 mg/L
1.9 mg/L
1.5 mg/L
1.5 mg/L
1.4 mg/L

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-06-07Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-06-07Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-04-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-08-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-06-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-02-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-10-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  21. 2019-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-05-24Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  25. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-04-03Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2018-04-03Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  13. 2002-02-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served449
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMarion
EPA ZIP on file28752

Areas served

  • Marion, Mcdowell County

Reading this record

West Marion Elem School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 449 people in Marion, 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.