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Polk County, NC drinking water systems

6 community water systems serve Polk County, NC, reporting 10,861 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. 1 system still has one unresolved.

3 rely mainly on groundwater and 3 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

4 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 0 lead lines, 0 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 557 lines of unknown material.

1 more system is placed in Polk County, NC by the county its records name because it has no service area map that lines up with its own records, so it is listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
6
People served, sum of each system's own figure
10,861
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
2
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Polk County

6 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
Town of Tryon Tryon and land outside it 5,494 Surface water 1 0 No inventory
Town of Columbus Columbus 2,489 Groundwater 1 2 No inventory
City of Saluda Saluda 1,814 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Polk County Water System Outside cities and towns 838 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Melmont Water System Tryon and land outside it 127 Groundwater 0 0 0
Brights Creek Water System Outside cities and towns 99 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Polk County

1 system

EPA has no service area map for this system. It is placed by the county its records name (the counties EPA lists it serving, or the county coded in its ID where EPA lists none), and without a map it is not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
The Brow Condominiums County on record 96 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Polk County

3 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