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Orange Water & Sewer Authority

Serves Carrboro and Chapel Hill, Orange County, NC · 86,500 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and 1 monitoring/reporting issue for Orange Water & Sewer Authority in the last ten years.

  • NC0368010
  • CARRBORO
  • NC
  • 86,500 served

System profile

Source water Surface water
ZIP 27510
EPA system ID NC0368010

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
0
Resolved
0
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
1

Key facts

  • Orange Water & Sewer Authority draws water from 2 surface water intakes.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by North Carolina, March 2023.
  • Record on file since 2009, with 0 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 22,897 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
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Monitoring and reporting
 Dec 1, 2022 Resolved

Full record since 2009

EPA's records for Orange Water & Sewer Authority go back to 2009. Before October 19, 2016 they list no health-based violations and 1 monitoring or reporting violation.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
2000s 0 1
2020s 0 1

Enforcement actions

North Carolina regulators took 1 formal enforcement action against Orange Water & Sewer Authority in 2023. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in March 2023.

Date By Action Violations covered
Mar 28, 2023 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)

Where the water comes from

Orange Water & Sewer Authority draws water from 2 surface water intakes. It also has emergency connections to Chatham Co-North, City of Durham and Town of Hillsborough. 3 other public water systems have emergency connections to Orange Water & Sewer Authority.

Emergency or part-time connections to

Annual water quality report

Orange Water & Sewer Authority 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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Testing your own water

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