Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer

Water Quality Snapshot: Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer

Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 10,122 residents in Asheville, North Carolina (Buncombe County) through 3,985 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 293 total violations for this system , of which 25 (9%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 253 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Coliform (TCR), recorded in 16 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across North Carolina, EPA tracks 5,020 public water systems serving 9,877,724 people, with 524,053 cumulative violations and 38,492 health-based violations on record. About 93% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 104.4 violations. Statewide, 174 of 287 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (60.6%).

Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer's 293 violations sit above the North Carolina average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.