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Buncombe County, NC drinking water systems

27 community water systems serve Buncombe County, NC, reporting 194,268 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

12 of them (44%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 3 systems still have one unresolved.

18 rely mainly on groundwater and 9 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

24 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 2 lead lines, 310 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 51,039 lines of unknown material.

5 more systems are placed in Buncombe 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
27
People served, sum of each system's own figure
194,268
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
12
Systems with one unresolved
3
Lead service lines in inventories
2

Water systems serving Buncombe County

27 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
City of Asheville Asheville, Swannanoa and 7 more and land outside them 157,431 Surface water 1 0 2
Town of Black Mountain Black Mountain 11,976 Purchased surface water 1 1 0
Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer Woodfin, Asheville and 1 more 10,122 Surface water 2 0 0
Town of Weaverville Weaverville and land outside it 8,359 Surface water 0 0 0
Town of Biltmore Forest Biltmore Forest and Asheville 1,356 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Royal Gorge Water Utility Outside cities and towns 950 Groundwater 0 0 0
Bent Creek Water System Bent Creek and land outside it 800 Groundwater 0 0 0
Montreat Water System Montreat 798 Groundwater 1 0 0
Northview MHP Weaverville and land outside it 516 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory
Christmount Christian Assembly Black Mountain and land outside it 250 Groundwater 0 0 0
YMCA-Blue Ridge Assembly Black Mountain and land outside it 200 Groundwater 1 0 0
Rangeview Acres MHP Swannanoa 150 Groundwater 0 0 0
Johnson-Siler MHP Asheville and land outside it 150 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Weaverville Hills MHP Weaverville and land outside it 147 Groundwater 0 0 0
Hazelwood Homeowners Assoc Asheville and land outside it 100 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Wedgefield Acres MHP Asheville and land outside it 100 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mountain Vista @ Luther Cove Outside cities and towns 100 Groundwater 0 0 0
Dogwood Knolls Subdivision Weaverville and land outside it 98 Groundwater 0 0 0
Starview Heights Extension Weaverville and land outside it 94 Groundwater 0 0 0
Kirk Glen S/D Weaverville and land outside it 92 Purchased surface water 5 0 0
Jewel Acres Water Service Asheville and land outside it 90 Groundwater 1 0 0
Twin Creeks S/D Fairview and land outside it 77 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Wind Shadows Circle MHP Outside cities and towns 72 Groundwater 3 0 No inventory
Avalon Acres MHP Fairview 65 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Suncrest MHP Outside cities and towns 65 Groundwater 0 0 0
Laurelwood MHP Outside cities and towns 60 Groundwater 0 0 0
Under the Blue Ridge Asheville and land outside it 50 Groundwater 1 1 0

Systems placed by county record in Buncombe County

5 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others 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
Mount Pisgah Academy County on record 210 Groundwater 1 0 0
Country Place S/D County on record 160 Groundwater 0 0 0
Rolling Oaks Estates County on record 75 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Shanna Apartments County on record 60 Groundwater 1 0 0
Waightstill Mountain County on record 49 Purchased surface water 1 0 0

Cities and towns in Buncombe County

12 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