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Horseshoe Mobile Estates

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
255 people
Connections
109
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Garner, NC
County
Wake
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

27603

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Nitrate, above the legal limit. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and haloacetic acids (HAA5): North Carolina’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Aug. 22, 2012 to Feb. 14, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Above the legal limit

6.4ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 5.2 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.4 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 5.2 ppm. EPA judges this limit at each sampling point, and recorded a violation for nitrate at this utility in 2024. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 6.5 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Below EPA’s limits1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 6.0 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
6 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)

    For: Nitrate

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction

    For: Nitrate

    Other certifiers’ wording: Nitrate

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJan. 1, 2024 to Dec. 31, 202411 MG/LArchived
Lead and Copper RuleA required study or plan for corrosion control was not done on time.EPA: OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationApril 1, 2017—Resolved
Lead and Copper RuleRequired information about lead was not given to customers.EPA: Public EducationDec. 2, 2016—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 14 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are North Carolina’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chromium (total), fluoride and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Horseshoe Mobile Estates’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for North Carolina cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Aug. 22, 2012 to Feb. 14, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Horseshoe Mobile Estates’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab North Carolina certifies.

The 3 labs North Carolina certifies closest to the area Horseshoe Mobile Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Wake County Human Services-Public Health Ctr.

    Raleigh, NC · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (919) 250-4437

  • Eurofins Built Env. Testing East - Cary

    Cary, NC · about 10 miles

    Certified for asbestos

    (919) 481-1413

  • Eurofins Raleigh

    Cary, NC · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (919) 467-3090

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0392113. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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