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Pebble Creek Apartments

Serves Boone and Cove Creek, Watauga County, NC · 52 people served

Federal records show 3 health-based violations and 8 monitoring/reporting issues for Pebble Creek Apartments in the last ten years. The most serious issue in this window was a resolved LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS violation.

  • NC0195127
  • BOONE
  • NC
  • 52 served

System profile

Source water Groundwater
ZIP 28607
EPA system ID NC0195127

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
3
Resolved
3
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
8

Key facts

  • Pebble Creek Apartments draws water from 1 well.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by North Carolina, August 2025.
  • Record on file since 1980, with 5 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 27 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

Contaminant Rule family Start date Status Acute
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
Treatment technique failure
 350 Oct 17, 2024 Resolved No
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 350 Aug 30, 2012 Resolved No
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 350 Dec 2, 2008 Resolved No

Monitoring and reporting issues

Since October 2016

Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.

Issue Start date Status
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2025 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2025 Active
Enforcement action in place
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
RPT
 Oct 17, 2024 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2022 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2022 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2021 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2020 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Monitoring and reporting
 Apr 1, 2019 Active
Enforcement action in place

Full record since 1980

EPA's records for Pebble Creek Apartments go back to 1980. Before October 19, 2016 they list 5 health-based violations (5 resolved) and 84 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1980s 0 20
1990s 1 28
2000s 2 30
2010 to October 18, 2016 2 6
October 19, 2016 to 2019 0 1
2020s 1 7

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Lead and Copper Rule, began January 2013, Resolved.

Show all 5 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
Contaminant Start date Status
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jan 3, 2013 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Aug 30, 2012 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Apr 1, 2009 Resolved
Lead and Copper Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Dec 2, 2008 Resolved
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Aug 1, 1997 Resolved

Enforcement actions

North Carolina regulators took 14 formal enforcement actions against Pebble Creek Apartments between 2008 and 2025, filed as 16 records in EPA's data. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in August 2025.

Date By Action Violations covered
Aug 1, 2025 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Mar 30, 2022 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Oct 27, 2021 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule
Apr 26, 2021 North Carolina Compliance order with a penalty 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule
Dec 3, 2020 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule
May 24, 2019 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Nov 24, 2015 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Jun 14, 2013 North Carolina Compliance order with a penalty 1 violation (1 health-based): Lead and Copper Rule
Apr 12, 2013 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Public Notice
Feb 26, 2013 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 3 violations (1 health-based): Lead and Copper Rule
Dec 6, 2012 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Lead and Copper Rule
Oct 11, 2011 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Jun 3, 2010 North Carolina Compliance order with a penalty 1 violation (1 health-based): Lead and Copper Rule
May 23, 2008 North Carolina Compliance order with a penalty 26 violations: BHC-GAMMA, Toxaphene, Dalapon, Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate, OXAMYL

What the violations mean

Lead and Copper Rule

2 incidents

The system did not complete a treatment step or action that the Lead and Copper Rule requires (a treatment technique violation).

The utility had to notify customers about each of these violations.

LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS

1 incident

The system did not complete a treatment step or action that the LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS requires (a treatment technique violation).

The utility had to notify customers about this violation.

Where the water comes from

Pebble Creek Apartments draws water from 1 well.

Annual water quality report

Pebble Creek Apartments must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Systems serving 500 or fewer people may meet the rule by telling customers the report is available on request, so you may need to ask Pebble Creek Apartments for a copy.

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