Johnston County is pleased to share this water quality report with you. It describes to you, our customer, the quality of your drinking water. This report covers January 1 through December 31, 2008. Johnston County's drinking water supply surpassed the strict regulations of both the State of North Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires all water suppliers to provide reports like this every year to each customer.

Before you receive your drinking water, the Johnston County Water Treatment Plant disinfects and filters surface water from the Neuse River. The intake and treatment facility are both located about one half-mile east of Wilson's Mills.

For more information about Johnston County's drinking water, please contact Timothy G. Broome, P.E.  at 919-989-5075 or via U.S.P.S. mail to P.O. Box 2263, Smithfield, North Carolina, 27577. There is a monthly Board of Commissioners meeting that you are welcome to attend. For more information about these meetings, see the Board of Commissioners web pages. For more information about Johnston County's Water Quality Report, see http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo.htm.

The EPA Wants You to Know:

Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the U.S. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.

Generally, sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, natural springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or under the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity.

Contaminants that may be present in source water include:

• Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, which may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife;

   

• Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally occurring or result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming;

   

• Pesticides and Herbicides, which may come from a variety of sources such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential uses;

   

• Organic Chemical contaminants, including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial processes and petroleum production, and can also come from gas stations, urban stormwater runoff, and septic systems; and

   

• Radioactive contaminants, which can be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities.

In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, the EPA prescribes regulations that limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water that must provide the same protection for public health.

Water Quality reports are prepared on an Annual basis.

Please click on the Annual report below that you would like to view.

'2009' Water Quality Report

'2008' Water Quality Report

'2007' Water Quality Report