North Carolina · water system · PWSID NC0471020
One thing here needs 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 3,495 people in Pender County.
A health-based violation means a contaminant limit or a required treatment step wasn't met.
Official record for your water system · U.S. EPA — Safe Drinking Water Act compliance records · retrieved 2026-08-16 · source
Lead: latest 90th-percentile result 0 ppb — below the 10 ppb action level (sampled 2025-12-31, 1 result 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.
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.
Groundwater.
Also holds emergency-only connections (Town of Surf City) — backup interconnections, not routine supply.
EPA compliance records list 5 health-based violations since 2021, 5 without a recorded resolution. Administrative (paperwork) records are counted separately and never added in.
No UCMR5 results are on file for this system — absence of testing, not absence of PFAS.
EPA records list about 3,495 people served in Pender. Service-area boundaries have known errors — a water bill is the ground truth for any single address.
| Dataset | Agency version | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| EPA/state ATTAINS waterway assessments | ATTAINS_Assessment ArcGIS snapshot (gispub.epa.gov) | 2026-08-15 |
| ATTAINS waterway geometry | ATTAINS_Assessment ArcGIS lines + areas (gispub.epa.gov) | 2026-08-16 |
| Census TIGER county boundaries | Census TIGERweb Counties (current vintage) | 2026-08-16 |
| NC DEQ PFAS monitoring | NC DEQ DWR EQuIS export, samples through 2025-07-29 | 2026-08-17 |
| Census TIGER place boundaries | Census TIGERweb Places (Incorporated + CDP, current vintage) | 2026-08-16 |
| EPA water system service areas | EPA PWS Service Areas v3 (hosted layer, item 80c6912ef14f46e480f5afd807767b4b) | 2026-08-15 |
| EPA Safe Drinking Water Act compliance records | ECHO SDWA quarterly bulk download | 2026-08-16 |
| EPA standards & benchmarks | 2026-08 curation | 2026-08-15 |
| EPA UCMR5 PFAS monitoring | UCMR5 occurrence data (collections through 2025-12-10) | 2026-08-15 |
| USGS watershed boundaries | USGS WBD via National Map MapServer | 2026-08-15 |
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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