County drinking water records
Carter County, TN drinking water systems
10 community water systems serve Carter County, TN, reporting 59,185 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.
2 of them (20%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 5 systems still have one unresolved.
4 rely mainly on groundwater and 6 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.
Their lead service line inventories list 5 lead lines, 0 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 15,383 lines of unknown material.
- Community water systems
- 10
- People served, sum of each system's own figure
- 59,185
- Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
- 2
- Systems with one unresolved
- 5
- Lead service lines in inventories
- 5
Water systems serving Carter County
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabethton Water Dept | Elizabethton, Central and 4 more | 32,490 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First U.D. of Carter County | Hunter and Elizabethton and land outside them | 9,143 | Groundwater under direct influence | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| South Elizabethton U.D. | Valley Forge and Hampton and land outside them | 6,244 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Hampton Utility District | Hampton and land outside it | 3,529 | Groundwater | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Siam Utility District | Valley Forge and Elizabethton and land outside them | 3,319 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| North Elizabethton Water Co-Op | Biltmore and land outside it | 1,555 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Roan Mountain Utility District | Roan Mountain | 1,226 | Groundwater | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carderview Utility District | Butler and land outside it | 1,130 | Groundwater | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Watauga River Reg Water Auth | Hunter and land outside it | 353 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peters Hollow Water System | Elizabethton and land outside it | 196 | Groundwater | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Cities and towns in Carter County
9 places- Biltmore2 systems
- Central1 system
- Elizabethton2 systems
- Hampton2 systems
- Hunter2 systems
- Pine Crest1 system
- Roan Mountain1 system
- Valley Forge3 systems
- Watauga1 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