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Transylvania County, North Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NC175 · Transylvania County 115 sys · 11,769 viol · #1408/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.8% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 3.9% health
  • RANK-MID #1408/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 99%
  • SYS-MID 115 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Franklin County ( -0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Transylvania County ranks #1,408 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #66 of 100 counties in North Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Transylvania County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.8% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 3.9% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,408 of 3,254 · #66 of 100 in North Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Transylvania County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Transylvania County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Gates · lowest Franklin · near Mitchell · near Tyrrell · highest 50% 87.5% 87.7% 87.8% 88% 88.2% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Brevard, City Of 11,336 25 Clean
Connestee Falls 3,532 533 Clean
Sapphire Lakes Development 724 2,275 -
Sherwood Forest Water System 680 69 -
Rosman, Town Of 650 172 -
The Wilds Camp 450 18 -
Knob Creek Water System 445 96 -
Mountain Falls 400 1 -
Camp Carolina in Back Country 350 3 -
Camp Illahee #1 320 12 -
Camp Illahee #2 320 15 -
Anchor Baptist 300 39 -
Dollar General Store #17310 300 8 -
Little River Baptist Church 250 20 -
Turkey Pen MHP 229 3,092 -
Eagles Nest Foundation 220 13 -
Eagles Nest Foundation #2 220 5 -
Camp Kahdalea 200 19 -
Usfs-Sliding Rock Rec Area 200 35 -
Lake Toxaway Marine 200 0 -
Dollar General #16509 200 0 -
Dollar General #21507 200 0 -
Camp High Rocks Main 190 6 -
Rockbrook Camp 190 3 -
Camp High Rocks-Dining Hall 190 6 -
Camp High Rocks-Barn 190 7 -
Camp High Rocks- Gym 190 6 -
Camp High Rocks-Hill 190 6 -
Keystone Camp Inc 180 27 -
Pisgah Girl Scout Camp 180 64 -
Camp Gwynn Valley 175 41 -
North Toxaway Baptist Church 160 16 -
T C Henderson Elem School 153 108 -
Cradle of Forestry 150 17 -
Mount Pisgah 150 47 -
Sapphire Country Store 125 3 -
Turkey Creek Baptist Church 120 0 -
Glade Creek Baptist Church 120 81 -
Enon Baptist Church 115 29 -
Adventure Village 114 20 -
Cathey`s Creek Baptist Church 107 10 -
Ridge Haven Conference Center 100 168 -
Carr`s Hill Baptist Church 100 4 -
Osteria del Monte Restaurant 100 35 -
Camp Chosatonga 100 6 -
Cedar Mountain Cafe 100 97 -
Earthshine Lodge 100 76 -
Panthertown Cafe 100 17 -
Outward Bound Cedar Rock Base 100 84 -
Harmony Korner 100 11 -

Compare beyond North Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Transylvania County

Cross-state counties nearest Transylvania County on flagged-system share (87.8%) and cumulative violation count (11,769). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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