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Jackson County, NC drinking water systems

31 community water systems serve Jackson County, NC, reporting 41,585 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

9 of them (29%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 2 systems still have one unresolved.

27 rely mainly on groundwater and 4 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 1 lead line, 617 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 1,662 lines of unknown material.

8 more systems are placed in Jackson 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
31
People served, sum of each system's own figure
41,585
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
9
Systems with one unresolved
2
Lead service lines in inventories
1

Water systems serving Jackson County

31 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
Cherokee Water System Cherokee 16,203 Surface water 5 0 1
Western Carolina Univ WTP Cullowhee 7,800 Surface water 0 0 0
Tuckaseigee Water & Sewer Auth Sylva, Cullowhee and 2 more 7,528 Surface water 4 0 0
Fairfield Sapphire Cashiers and land outside it 3,873 Groundwater 4 0 0
High Hampton Inn/Country Club Cashiers 770 Groundwater 0 0 0
Trillium Links & Village Cashiers and land outside it 610 Groundwater 1 0 0
Highlands Cove S/D Cashiers and land outside it 577 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mountain Top Golf & Lake Club Cashiers and land outside it 445 Groundwater 1 0 0
Wade Hampton Club Cashiers and land outside it 429 Groundwater 0 0 0
Trillium Links West Cashiers and land outside it 424 Groundwater 0 0 0
Bear Lake Reserve 1B Outside cities and towns 396 Groundwater 0 0 0
Forest Hills Water System Forest Hills and Cullowhee 323 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chinquapin Development Glenville and land outside it 259 Groundwater 0 0 0
Cedar Hill Cashiers and land outside it 244 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chattooga Club Cashiers and land outside it 213 Groundwater 0 0 0
Big Sheep Cliff Cashiers 175 Groundwater 0 1 0
Cherokee- 3200 Acre Community WS Outside cities and towns 164 Purchased groundwater 0 0 0
Cedar Creek Woods Cashiers and land outside it 122 Groundwater 0 0 0
Strawberry Hill Glenville and land outside it 109 Groundwater 0 0 0
Cedar Ridge Estates Cashiers and land outside it 107 Groundwater 0 1 0
Ballough Hills Outside cities and towns 102 Groundwater 1 0 0
Cashiers Village Cashiers 89 Groundwater 1 0 0
Riverside Apartments Cullowhee and land outside it 89 Groundwater 0 0 0
The Divide Water System Outside cities and towns 89 Groundwater 0 0 0
Carolina Village Apartments Cullowhee 81 Groundwater 1 0 0
Morningstar Assisted Living of Sylva Sylva and Dillsboro 80 Groundwater 0 0 0
Continental Cliffs Glenville and Cashiers 79 Groundwater 0 0 0
Ingles Supermarket No 110 Cashiers and land outside it 66 Groundwater 0 0 0
Carol`s Cabins Sylva 51 Groundwater 0 0 0
Timber Ridge Cashiers 51 Groundwater 2 0 0
Dillsboro Water Utilities, Inc. Dillsboro and land outside it 37 Purchased surface water 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Jackson County

8 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
Bear Lake Reserve Golden Farms County on record 117 Groundwater 1 0 0
Silver Slip County on record 79 Groundwater 0 0 0
Spring Forest S/D County on record 79 Groundwater 0 0 0
Big Ridge S/D County on record 76 Groundwater 0 0 0
Silver Run Reserve County on record 76 Groundwater 1 0 0
Pinchot S/D County on record 74 Groundwater 0 0 0
Stillpoint County on record 38 Groundwater 0 0 0
Bridge Creek County on record 25 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Jackson 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