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Community Water System · PWS NC0377020

Ellerbe Town Of

Operator location Ellerbe, North Carolina - 43% of 132 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,050 served per SDWIS.

2,050
People served (this PWS)
132
EPA violations (this PWS)
57
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Ellerbe Town Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

43% of 132 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 43% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,372 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Ellerbe Town Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (132), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,050 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 43% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,372 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#365 of 713
Population · NC
132
Total EPA violations on record
43%
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
820
County
Richmond
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
55
Monitoring Violations
62
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 45 2014
TTHM MR 25 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 24 2025
TTHM MCL 10 2017
Public Notice Other 6 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2003
Chlorine MR 3 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2023
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 1 2010
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2021

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Ellerbe Town Of has 132 recorded EPA violations, 79% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 21% carry more. 43% of this system's own violations are health-based (57 of 132), and it ranks #13,372 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)

132 Higher than most more violations than 79% 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 Ellerbe Town Of

57 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0377020.

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

Nationwide peers

132 violations · 2,050 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Ellerbe 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