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Avery County, NC drinking water systems

17 community water systems serve Avery County, NC, reporting 12,052 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

7 of them (41%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 2 systems still have one unresolved.

17 rely mainly on groundwater, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 12 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,691 lines of unknown material.

2 more systems are placed in Avery County, NC by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
17
People served, sum of each system's own figure
12,052
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
7
Systems with one unresolved
2
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Avery County

17 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Sugar Mountain Utility Sugar Mountain and Banner Elk 3,226 Groundwater 0 0 0
Linville Land Harbor Linville and land outside it 2,280 Groundwater 1 0 0
Town of Banner Elk Banner Elk 1,164 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Newland Newland 999 Groundwater 1 0 0
Elk River Club Development Banner Elk and land outside it 732 Groundwater 2 0 0
Linville Ridge Grandfather Village and Linville and land outside them 710 Groundwater 0 0 0
Linville Resorts Inc Linville 499 Groundwater 1 0 0
Town of Elk Park Elk Park 495 Groundwater 0 1 0
Town of Seven Devils Seven Devils 400 Groundwater 0 0 0
Blue Ridge Village Sugar Mountain and Banner Elk 343 Groundwater 1 1 0
Charles A Cannon Memorial Hospital Grandfather Village and Linville and land outside them 320 Groundwater 0 0 0
Grandfather Golf & Country Clu Grandfather Village and Linville 250 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Crossnore Crossnore 195 Groundwater 1 0 0
Mountain Spring Water System Grandfather Village and Linville 165 Groundwater 0 0 0
Ski Country Banner Elk and land outside it 150 Groundwater 0 0 0
Lees-McRae -South Campus Banner Elk 99 Groundwater 1 0 0
Linville River Farms Crossnore and land outside it 25 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Avery County

2 systems

The service area maps EPA has for these systems do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
The Heritage of Sugar Mountain County on record 55 Groundwater 1 0 0
Woodland Meadows County on record 25 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Avery County

7 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations