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Swain County, NC drinking water systems

5 community water systems serve Swain County, NC, reporting 21,214 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.

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

Their lead service line inventories list 1 lead line, 609 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 2,943 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in Swain County, NC by mailing address or 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
5
People served, sum of each system's own figure
21,214
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
2
Systems with one unresolved
0
Lead service lines in inventories
1

Water systems serving Swain County

5 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
Cherokee Water System Cherokee 16,203 Surface water 5 0 1
Town of Bryson City Bryson City and land outside it 4,395 Surface water 0 0 0
Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates Outside cities and towns 318 Groundwater 0 0 0
Whittier Sanitary District Outside cities and towns 252 Groundwater 1 0 0
Pelohi Cove Bryson City and land outside it 46 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by mailing address or county record in Swain 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 mailing address or by the county their records name, 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
Nantahala Village County on record 135 Groundwater 2 0 0
Cherokee - Snowbird/Cornsilk Community Mailing address in Cherokee 103 Groundwater 0 0 0
Nantahala Outdoor--Flint Ridge County on record 46 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Swain County

2 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