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Twin Oaks Shores

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
70 people
Connections
39
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Elams, NC
County
Warren
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

27850

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Copper, above the action level. 2 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and arsenic: 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.

Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Sept. 27, 2013 to Dec. 17, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit2

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

3.1ppm

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 3.1 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

23ppb

90th percentile, 2026

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 23 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

60ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 60 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 58 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.62ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.62 ppm, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.1ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.1 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.48 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

4.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.3 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.0 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • 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

    Claims: Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Copper, Lead

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Copper, Lead

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper RuleRequired information about lead was not given to customers.EPA: Public EducationDec. 10, 2022—Resolved
Lead and Copper RuleA required study or plan for corrosion control was not done on time.EPA: OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationJune 1, 2022—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 10 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and arsenic results here are North Carolina’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Twin Oaks Shores’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 Sept. 27, 2013 to Dec. 17, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Twin Oaks Shores’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 Twin Oaks Shores serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Northampton County Health Dept.

    Jackson, NC · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 534-5841

  • Nash County Health Department

    Nashville, NC · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 459-1340

  • Franklin County Health Department

    Louisburg, NC · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (919) 496-2533

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0293104. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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