Community Water System · PWS NC0410035
Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of
Operator location Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina - 0% of 50 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 7,925 served per SDWIS.
- 7,925
- People served (this PWS)
- 50
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- 9 PFAS
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 50 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%). UCMR5: upper-third PFAS panel (> 4 compounds). Population rank #5,650 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (50), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (7,925; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. UCMR5 detected 9 PFAS compounds (upper-third PFAS panel (> 4 compounds)).
- #5,650 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #176 of 713
- Population · NC
- 50
- 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.
9 PFAS "forever chemicals" detected in testing under EPA's UCMR5 monitoring program.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 3,120
- County
- Brunswick
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 19 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 18 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of has 50 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 50), and it ranks #5,650 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)
50 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
PFAS Testing Results (UCMR5)
Results from EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule. 81 of 348 samples detected PFAS.
| Contaminant | Date | Result | MRL | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEtFOSAA | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 11Cl-PF3OUdS | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFUnA | 8/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTrDA | 8/13/2024 | <7.00 ppt | 7.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxA | 8/13/2024 | 4.30 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFDA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 4:2 FTS | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 6:2 FTS | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBA | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| HFPO-DA | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| ADONA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxS | 8/13/2024 | 3.30 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFNA | 8/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOA | 8/13/2024 | 4.10 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFDoA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 9Cl-PF3ONS | 8/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTA | 8/13/2024 | <8.00 ppt | 8.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NMeFOSAA | 8/13/2024 | <6.00 ppt | 6.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFMPA | 8/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBS | 8/13/2024 | 3.10 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFPeA | 8/13/2024 | 5.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFHpS | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 8:2 FTS | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeS | 8/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOS | 8/13/2024 | 9.40 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFMBA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFEESA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NFDHA | 8/13/2024 | <20.00 ppt | 20.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| ADONA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBS | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 11Cl-PF3OUdS | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFUnA | 8/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFNA | 8/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOS | 8/13/2024 | 9.20 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Detected |
| PFOA | 8/13/2024 | 4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Detected |
| HFPO-DA | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDoA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxS | 8/13/2024 | 3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
| 9Cl-PF3ONS | 8/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpS | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeS | 8/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 8:2 FTS | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NEtFOSAA | 8/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTrDA | 8/13/2024 | <7.00 ppt | 7.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFEESA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFMBA | 8/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeA | 8/13/2024 | 4.60 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Detected |
Health-based violations on Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0410035.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
50 violations · 7,925 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Ocean Isle Beach, Town Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in North Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Carolina systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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