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McDowell County, NC drinking water systems

16 community water systems serve McDowell County, NC, reporting 15,477 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

9 of them (56%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

14 rely mainly on groundwater and 2 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

13 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 29 lead lines, 102 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 3,325 lines of unknown material.

7 more systems are placed in McDowell 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
16
People served, sum of each system's own figure
15,477
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
9
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
29

Water systems serving McDowell County

16 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 Marion Marion and West Marion and land outside them 9,362 Surface water 1 0 29
Town of Old Fort Old Fort and land outside it 1,700 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Royal Gorge Water Utility Outside cities and towns 950 Groundwater 0 0 0
McDowell Co--Nebo Marion and land outside it 902 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Riverside MHP Marion and land outside it 399 Groundwater 0 0 0
Black Bear Development Nebo 343 Groundwater 0 0 0
Marion Moose Lodge Marion 320 Groundwater 1 0 0
Woodlawn Heights Water System Marion and land outside it 315 Groundwater 0 0 0
Little Switzerland Comm Assoc Outside cities and towns 300 Groundwater 1 0 0
Deer Park Health & Rehab. Nebo and land outside it 290 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Bear Den Acres Outside cities and towns 140 Groundwater 0 0 0
Linville Falls Club Marion and land outside it 127 Groundwater 1 0 0
Waterglyn S/D Nebo 115 Groundwater 0 0 0
Harmony Estates S/D Nebo and land outside it 100 Groundwater 1 0 0
Swiss Village Wtr System Outside cities and towns 64 Groundwater 1 0 0
White Pines MHP Nebo and land outside it 50 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory

Systems placed by county record in McDowell County

7 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
Marion Moose Lodge-Mountain County on record 160 Groundwater 1 0 0
Lake James Lodge Assisted Livi County on record 80 Groundwater 2 0 0
Cedarbrook Residential Home County on record 80 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory
Recovery Ventures Corporation County on record 64 Groundwater 0 0 0
Houston House Rest Home County on record 40 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory
McDowell House Rest Home County on record 36 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Sunset Point S/D County on record 31 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in McDowell County

4 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