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Rutherford County, NC drinking water systems

13 community water systems serve Rutherford County, NC, reporting 50,309 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

4 of them (31%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 2 systems still have one unresolved.

6 rely mainly on groundwater and 7 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

12 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 1 lead line, 127 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 11,813 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in Rutherford 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
13
People served, sum of each system's own figure
50,309
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
4
Systems with one unresolved
2
Lead service lines in inventories
1

Water systems serving Rutherford County

13 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 Forest City Forest City and land outside it 21,521 Surface water 0 0 0
Broad River Water Authority Spindale, Rutherfordton and 4 more and land outside them 18,242 Surface water 0 0 0
Town of Ellenboro Ellenboro and land outside it 2,322 Purchased surface water 1 2 No inventory
Concord Comm Water System Ellenboro and land outside it 1,867 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Fairfield Mountains No 1 Lake Lure 1,798 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Lake Lure Lake Lure and Chimney Rock Village 1,176 Groundwater 1 0 1
Town of Bostic Bostic and land outside it 953 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Fairfield Mtns-Apple Valley Lake Lure 950 Groundwater 1 0 0
Polk County Water System Outside cities and towns 838 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Lake Lure Village Resort Lake Lure 226 Groundwater 1 1 0
Bridges S/D Forest City and land outside it 200 Groundwater 0 0 0
Holly Hills S/D Forest City and land outside it 122 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Chimney Rock Village Lake Lure 94 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Rutherford County

3 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
Daniel Morgan Wtr District-NC County on record 376 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Firefly Cove County on record 99 Groundwater 1 0 0
Colonial Manor Rest Home County on record 27 Groundwater 1 0 0

Cities and towns in Rutherford County

11 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