Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NC0187605
Nantahala Food Mart
Operator location Bryson City, North Carolina - 28% of 71 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 25 served per SDWIS.
- 25
- People served (this PWS)
- 71
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 20
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Nantahala Food Mart standing, mid SDWIS violation third
28% of 71 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Nantahala Food Mart lands in the middle third by violation volume (71), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (25; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 71
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 25
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 7
- County
- Swain
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 20
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 23 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 20 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 10 | 2009 |
| Nitrite | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Nantahala Food Mart has 71 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 71), 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)
71 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Nantahala Food Mart
20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NC0187605.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · North Carolina DEQ, Public Water Supply Section
Nationwide peers
71 violations · 25 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.
What to do with Nantahala Food Mart
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
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