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Town of Spring Lake

Serves Spring Lake, Cumberland County, NC · 11,725 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and 7 monitoring/reporting issues for Town of Spring Lake in the last ten years.

  • NC0326020
  • SPRING LAKE
  • NC
  • 11,725 served

System profile

Source water Purchased surface water
ZIP 28390
EPA system ID NC0326020

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
0
Resolved
0
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
7

Key facts

  • Town of Spring Lake buys its water from Fayetteville Public Works Comm and Harnett Regional Water.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by North Carolina, December 2025.
  • Record on file since 1999, with 8 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 4,689 unknown out of 4,692 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.

None since October 2016.

Monitoring and reporting issues

Since October 2016

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

Issue Start date Status
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Monitoring and reporting
 Oct 1, 2025 Archived
Violation period ended. EPA no longer counts it toward current compliance, but no fix was formally recorded.
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Monitoring and reporting
 Oct 1, 2025 Archived
Violation period ended. EPA no longer counts it toward current compliance, but no fix was formally recorded.
Chlorine
Monitoring and reporting
 Aug 1, 2025 Archived
Violation period ended. EPA no longer counts it toward current compliance, but no fix was formally recorded.
Public Notice
OTHER
 Jul 4, 2025 Resolved
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
 Sep 1, 2024 Resolved
Chlorine
Monitoring and reporting
 Sep 1, 2024 Resolved
Revised Total Coliform Rule
RPT
 May 11, 2024 Resolved

Full record since 1999

EPA's records for Town of Spring Lake go back to 1999. Before October 19, 2016 they list 8 health-based violations (8 resolved) and 28 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1990s 0 4
2000s 4 22
2010 to October 18, 2016 4 2
2020s 0 7

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Total Coliform, began June 2013, Resolved.

Show all 8 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
Contaminant Start date Status
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Jun 1, 2013 Resolved
Total Coliform (acute)
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Oct 1, 2011 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 0.086 mg/L, federal limit 0.08 mg/L (1.1 times the limit)
 Jul 1, 2011 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 0.084 mg/L, federal limit 0.08 mg/L (1.1 times the limit)
 Apr 1, 2011 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 0.086 mg/L, federal limit 0.08 mg/L (1.1 times the limit)
 Oct 1, 2008 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 0.083 mg/L, federal limit 0.08 mg/L (at or just above the limit)
 Jul 1, 2008 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 0.08217 mg/L, federal limit 0.08 mg/L (at or just above the limit)
 Jul 1, 2005 Resolved
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Aug 1, 2003 Resolved

Enforcement actions

North Carolina regulators and EPA took 11 formal enforcement actions against Town of Spring Lake and issued 1 boil water order between 2000 and 2025, filed as 13 records in EPA's data. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in December 2025.

Date By Action Violations covered
Dec 17, 2025 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations: Haloacetic Acids (HAA5), Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Oct 30, 2025 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Chlorine
Oct 22, 2025 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Public Notice
Dec 18, 2024 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations: Revised Total Coliform Rule, Chlorine
Jul 3, 2024 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Revised Total Coliform Rule
Jun 27, 2016 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Lead and Copper Rule
Jul 2, 2013 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Total Coliform
Oct 17, 2011 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations (2 health-based): Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Oct 11, 2011 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Total Coliform
Oct 11, 2011 North Carolina Boil water order 1 violation (1 health-based): Total Coliform
Feb 19, 2009 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations (2 health-based): Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
May 25, 2000 EPA Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule

Where the water comes from

Town of Spring Lake buys its water from Fayetteville Public Works Comm and Harnett Regional Water. It lists no wells or intakes of its own. 1 other community water system buys water from Town of Spring Lake.

Buys water from

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Town of Spring Lake 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 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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