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Watauga County, NC drinking water systems

23 community water systems serve Watauga County, NC, reporting 40,622 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

7 of them (30%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.

19 rely mainly on groundwater and 4 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 4 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 5,491 lines of unknown material.

4 more systems are placed in Watauga 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
23
People served, sum of each system's own figure
40,622
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
7
Systems with one unresolved
0
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Watauga County

23 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 Boone Boone 19,811 Surface water 0 0 0
Appalachian State Univ WTP Boone 11,150 Surface water 3 0 0
Town of Beech Mountain Beech Mountain 2,468 Surface water 3 0 0
Town of Blowing Rock Blowing Rock 1,637 Surface water 0 0 0
Hound Ears Water System Boone and land outside it 975 Groundwater 0 0 0
Cottages of Boone Boone and land outside it 890 Groundwater 0 0 0
Echota S/D Foscoe and Boone 678 Groundwater 8 0 0
Powder Horn Mountain Boone and land outside it 548 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mill Ridge POA Foscoe 427 Groundwater 1 0 0
Town of Seven Devils Seven Devils 400 Groundwater 0 0 0
Ski Mountain S/D Boone and land outside it 397 Groundwater 0 0 0
Bradford Park Boone and land outside it 310 Groundwater 1 0 0
Chapel Hill S/D Boone and land outside it 216 Groundwater 0 0 0
Mountain Ridge Estates Blowing Rock and land outside it 168 Groundwater 0 0 0
Blue Ridge Preservation Inc Boone and land outside it 150 Groundwater 0 0 0
Crestview Estates S/D Blowing Rock and land outside it 87 Groundwater 0 0 0
Laurelwood Development Boone and land outside it 71 Groundwater 0 0 0
Pebble Creek Apartments Cove Creek and Boone 52 Groundwater 3 0 0
Blue Ridge Estates Blowing Rock and land outside it 51 Groundwater 0 0 0
Watauga MHP Foscoe and Boone 45 Groundwater 0 0 0
Green Briar Apartments Boone and land outside it 35 Groundwater 0 0 0
Bloomfield Apartments Boone and land outside it 31 Groundwater 1 0 0
Heavenly Mtn Resort-Village Boone and land outside it 25 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Watauga County

4 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
Crystal Mountain County on record 88 Groundwater 0 0 0
Valley View S/D County on record 40 Groundwater 0 0 0
The Bluffs at Blowing Rock County on record 38 Groundwater 1 0 No inventory
Hampton MHP County on record 37 Groundwater 1 0 0

Cities and towns in Watauga County

6 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