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Community Water System · PWS NC0156112

Swiss Village Wtr System

Operator location Little Switzerland, North Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 64 people served; 58 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

64
People served (this PWS)
58
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Swiss Village Wtr System standing, mid SDWIS violation third

64 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Swiss Village Wtr System lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (64; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

58
Total EPA violations on record
9%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
64
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
56
County
McDowell
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
36
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Arsenic MR 7 1988
Nitrate MR 7 1993
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 1991
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2024
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2022
Nitrate MCL 3 1987
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
Selenium MR 2 1988
Cadmium MR 2 1988
Fluoride MR 2 1988
Mercury MR 2 1988
Chromium MR 2 1988
Barium MR 2 1988
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Swiss Village Wtr System has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 58), 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)

58 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 Swiss Village Wtr System

EPA SDWIS lists 64 people served and 56 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

58 violations · 64 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Swiss Village Wtr System

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