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Poplar Trails Water System

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
180 people
Connections
74
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Concord, NC
County
Cabarrus
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28027

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.3 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): 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 Nov. 2, 2012 to Oct. 4, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

None of the contaminants in the records below were found at or above the reporting levels.

8 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
  • Nitrate
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) 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. Poplar Trails Water System’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 Nov. 2, 2012 to Oct. 4, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Poplar Trails Water System’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 Poplar Trails Water System serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services- Huntersville NC

    Huntersville, NC · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (803) 227-2702

  • K & W Laboratories, LLC

    Midland, NC · about 14 miles

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

    (704) 888-1211

  • Chem-Bac Labs, Inc.

    Charlotte, NC · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (704) 394-6381

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0113191. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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