County drinking water records

Macon County, NC drinking water systems

24 community water systems serve Macon County, NC, reporting 20,979 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

6 of them (25%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.

19 rely mainly on groundwater and 5 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

23 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 1 lead line, 12 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 2,441 lines of unknown material.

5 more systems are placed in Macon 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: 24
People served, sum of each system's own figure: 20,979
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years: 6
Systems with one unresolved: 0
Lead service lines in inventories: 1

Water systems serving Macon County

24 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	Lead lines
Town of Franklin	Franklin and land outside it	9,650	Surface water	2	0
Town of Highlands	Highlands	6,614	Surface water	3	0
Cullasaja Club	Highlands and land outside it	800	Groundwater	0	0
Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso.	Outside cities and towns	676	Purchased surface water	0	0
Highlands Falls Country Club	Highlands and land outside it	650	Groundwater	2	0
Wildcat Cliffs Country Club	Highlands and land outside it	445	Groundwater	1	No inventory
Watauga Vista	Franklin and land outside it	361	Groundwater	0	0
Riverbend Estates	Franklin and land outside it	323	Purchased surface water	0	0
LBJ Job Corps	Franklin and land outside it	270	Groundwater	0	0
Cold Springs POA	Highlands and land outside it	165	Groundwater	0	0
King Mountain Club Water	Highlands and land outside it	150	Groundwater under direct influence	0	1
Laurel Ridge	Franklin and land outside it	115	Groundwater	0	0
Flat Mountain Estates	Highlands and land outside it	109	Groundwater	2	0
Sassafras Gap Employee Village	Highlands and land outside it	107	Groundwater	0	0
Dowdle Trace S/D	Franklin and land outside it	79	Groundwater	0	0
Heritage Hills	Franklin and land outside it	74	Groundwater	0	0
Neighbors of Franklin, LLC	Franklin and land outside it	66	Groundwater	1	0
Highgate S/D	Highlands and land outside it	62	Groundwater	0	0
Cullasaja River S/D	Franklin and land outside it	53	Groundwater	0	0
El Shaddai	Outside cities and towns	53	Groundwater	0	0
Cowee Mountain S/D	Highlands and land outside it	46	Groundwater	0	0
Carolina Highlands Retire Park	Franklin and land outside it	45	Groundwater	0	0
The Gardens at Cat Creek	Franklin and land outside it	40	Groundwater	0	0
Laurel Hills	Franklin and land outside it	26	Groundwater	0	0

Systems placed by county record in Macon 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
Cherrywood Trails	County on record	125	Groundwater	0	0	No inventory
Cottages at Lake Osseroga	County on record	93	Groundwater	2	0	0
Wildwood Mountain S/D	County on record	81	Groundwater	2	0	0
Gemstone Village	County on record	75	Purchased surface water	0	0	No inventory
Nantahala Shores	County on record	53	Groundwater	0	1	0

Cities and towns in Macon County

2 places

Franklin1 system
Highlands1 system

Back to North Carolina

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