Community Water System · PWS NC0150102
Ballough Hills
Operator location Cullowhee, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 102 people served; 90 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 102
- People served (this PWS)
- 90
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ballough Hills standing, high SDWIS violation third
102 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Ballough Hills sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (90), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (102; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 90
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 102
- 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
- 40
- County
- Jackson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 22 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2003 |
| Public Notice | Other | 8 | 2009 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 1991 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2006 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ballough Hills has 90 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 90), 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)
90 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 Ballough Hills
EPA SDWIS lists 102 people served and 40 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
90 violations · 102 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Ballough Hills
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in North Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Carolina systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.