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Community Water System · PWS NC0362035

Biscoe, Town Of

Operator location Biscoe, North Carolina - 14% of 66 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,735 served per SDWIS.

2,735
People served (this PWS)
66
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Biscoe, Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

14% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,278 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Biscoe, Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,735 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,278 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#308 of 713
Population · NC
66
Total EPA violations on record
14%
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
1,090
County
Montgomery
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
9
Monitoring Violations
47
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 16 2025
TTHM MR 15 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2000
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 9 2025
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 5 2025
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2018
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 1 2010
Public Notice Other 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Biscoe, Town Of has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 66), and it ranks #11,278 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)

66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Biscoe, Town Of

9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0362035.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section

Nationwide peers

66 violations · 2,735 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Biscoe, Town Of

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater