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Community Water System · PWS NC0106123

Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital

Operator location Linville, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 320 people served; 59 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

320
People served (this PWS)
59
EPA violations (this PWS)
10
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital standing, mid SDWIS violation third

320 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital lands in the middle third by violation volume (59), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (320; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

59
Total EPA violations on record
17%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
320
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Avery
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
33
Treatment Tech Violations
10

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 33 2024
Public Notice Other 13 2013
Lead and Copper Rule TT 10 2013
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2003

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital has 59 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 59), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

59 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital

EPA SDWIS lists 320 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section

Nationwide peers

59 violations · 320 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Charles a Cannon Memorial Hospital

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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