County drinking water records
Mitchell County, NC drinking water systems
6 community water systems serve Mitchell County, NC, reporting 6,996 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.
2 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.
4 rely mainly on groundwater and 2 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.
Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 283 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 1,454 lines of unknown material.
- Community water systems
- 6
- People served, sum of each system's own figure
- 6,996
- Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
- 2
- Systems with one unresolved
- 0
- Lead service lines in inventories
- 0
Water systems serving Mitchell County
6 systemsPeople 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Spruce Pine | Spruce Pine and land outside it | 5,661 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Town of Bakersville | Bakersville | 725 | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Little Switzerland Comm Assoc | Outside cities and towns | 300 | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Swiss Pine Lakes | Spruce Pine and land outside it | 185 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penland School of Crafts | Outside cities and towns | 100 | Groundwater | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Humpback Mountain | Spruce Pine and land outside it | 25 | Groundwater | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cities and towns in Mitchell County
2 places- Bakersville1 system
- Spruce Pine1 system
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