Community Water System · PWS NC0175015
Columbus Town Of
Operator location Columbus, North Carolina - 0% of 481 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 2,489 served per SDWIS.
- 2,489
- People served (this PWS)
- 481
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Columbus Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 481 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #12,009 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Columbus Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (481), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,489 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,009 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #329 of 713
- Population · NC
- 481
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 980
- County
- Polk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 414
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 25 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 21 | 2025 |
| Endrin | MR | 17 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 16 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 13 | 2024 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Dalapon | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Simazine | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Picloram | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Chlordane | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| LASSO | MR | 10 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Columbus Town Of has 481 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 481), and it ranks #12,009 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
481 Higher than most more violations than 95% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Columbus Town Of
1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0175015.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
481 violations · 2,489 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Columbus Town Of
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