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North Carolina · water system · PWSID NC0235030

Franklin County Water & Sewer: drinking water record

Two things here need attention.

Two things could not be determined from the record.

What EPA and state records show about this community water system — compliance, PFAS testing, lead sampling, and where its water comes from. Serving about 26,060 people in Franklin County.

26,060people served
3health-based violations since 2021
3without recorded resolution
7administrative (paperwork) records

What the records flag

Needs attention

This system buys water from FRANKLINTON, TOWN OF, which has 1 unresolved health-based violation

Purchased water is treated by the seller before it arrives, so the seller's compliance record travels with the water it sells.

Water purchased from
FRANKLINTON, TOWN OF
Seller's unresolved health-based
1

Official record for your water system · U.S. EPA — Safe Drinking Water Act compliance records · retrieved 2026-08-16 · source

Needs attention

3 health-based violations with no recorded resolution

A health-based violation means a contaminant limit or a required treatment step wasn't met.

Health-based, since 2021
3
Without recorded resolution
3

Official record for your water system · U.S. EPA — Safe Drinking Water Act compliance records · retrieved 2026-08-16 · source

Lead & copper sampling

Lead: latest 90th-percentile result 0 ppb — below the 10 ppb action level (sampled 2025-12-31, 4 results in the 10-year window).

The 90th-percentile result means 9 out of 10 sampled homes were at or below this level. It measures the water system's corrosion control — it cannot tell you whether your own home's plumbing adds lead. Results older than 10 years, future-dated compliance periods, and physically implausible values are excluded.

PFAS testing

No UCMR5 results on file for this system. Systems serving under 3,300 people generally weren't required to test — this is absence of testing, not absence of PFAS.

Where the water comes from

Surface water.

Buys water from Town of Franklinton — which has 1 unresolved health-based violation on record. Purchased water is treated by the seller, so the seller's record travels with it.

Buys water from Town of Louisburg, whose recent record shows no unresolved health-based violations.

Buys water from Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg WTR, whose recent record shows no unresolved health-based violations.

Buys water from City of Raleigh, whose recent record shows no unresolved health-based violations.

What the record doesn’t establish

  • Whether this system has PFAS — systems serving under 3,300 people generally weren't required to test.
  • Whether your home's own plumbing adds lead or copper — no dataset covers indoor pipes.

Common questions

Does Franklin County Water & Sewer have drinking water violations?

EPA compliance records list 3 health-based violations since 2021, 3 without a recorded resolution. Administrative (paperwork) records are counted separately and never added in.

Has Franklin County Water & Sewer been tested for PFAS?

No UCMR5 results are on file for this system — absence of testing, not absence of PFAS.

How many people does Franklin County Water & Sewer serve?

EPA records list about 26,060 people served in Franklin. Service-area boundaries have known errors — a water bill is the ground truth for any single address.

Sources

DatasetAgency versionRetrieved
EPA/state ATTAINS waterway assessmentsATTAINS_Assessment ArcGIS snapshot (gispub.epa.gov)2026-08-15
ATTAINS waterway geometryATTAINS_Assessment ArcGIS lines + areas (gispub.epa.gov)2026-08-16
Census TIGER county boundariesCensus TIGERweb Counties (current vintage)2026-08-16
NC DEQ PFAS monitoringNC DEQ DWR EQuIS export, samples through 2025-07-292026-08-17
Census TIGER place boundariesCensus TIGERweb Places (Incorporated + CDP, current vintage)2026-08-16
EPA water system service areasEPA PWS Service Areas v3 (hosted layer, item 80c6912ef14f46e480f5afd807767b4b)2026-08-15
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act compliance recordsECHO SDWA quarterly bulk download2026-08-16
EPA standards & benchmarks2026-08 curation2026-08-15
EPA UCMR5 PFAS monitoringUCMR5 occurrence data (collections through 2025-12-10)2026-08-15
USGS watershed boundariesUSGS WBD via National Map MapServer2026-08-15

Records lag their agencies' refresh cycles — a recent change may not appear yet. Absence from a dataset is absence of a record, never evidence that water is clean.

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