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Town of Apex

Serves Apex, Wake County, NC · 83,001 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and 5 monitoring/reporting issues for Town of Apex in the last ten years.

  • NC0392045
  • APEX
  • NC
  • 83,001 served

System profile

Source water Purchased surface water
ZIP 27502
EPA system ID NC0392045

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
0
Resolved
0
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
5

Key facts

  • Town of Apex buys its water from Town of Cary.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by North Carolina, September 2024.
  • Record on file since 1981, with 3 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 28,067 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
 Jul 1, 2024 Resolved
Public Notice
OTHER
 Sep 18, 2020 Resolved
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Monitoring and reporting
 Jun 1, 2019 Resolved
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Monitoring and reporting
 Jun 1, 2019 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2018 Resolved

Full record since 1981

EPA's records for Town of Apex go back to 1981. Before October 19, 2016 they list 3 health-based violations (2 resolved, 1 archived by EPA without a recorded fix) and 22 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1980s 0 18
1990s 3 1
2000s 0 3
October 19, 2016 to 2019 0 3
2020s 0 2

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Total Coliform, began September 1999, Resolved.

Show all 3 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
Contaminant Start date Status
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Sep 1, 1999 Resolved
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Sep 19, 1991 Archived
Total Coliform
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Sep 19, 1991 Resolved

Enforcement actions

North Carolina regulators took 4 formal enforcement actions against Town of Apex between 2018 and 2024. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in September 2024.

Date By Action Violations covered
Sep 20, 2024 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Jan 4, 2021 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Public Notice
Sep 18, 2019 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations: Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs), Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Nov 20, 2018 North Carolina Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule

Where the water comes from

Town of Apex buys its water from Town of Cary. It lists no wells or intakes of its own. It also has an emergency connection to Harnett Regional Water. 1 other community water system buys water from Town of Apex. 2 other public water systems have emergency connections to Town of Apex.

Buys water from

Emergency or part-time connections to

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Town of Apex 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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