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Green Mountain Park

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,194 people
Connections
350
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Lenoir, NC
County
Caldwell
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28645

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 3.4 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate: North Carolina’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 14, 2013 to Oct. 9, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.1 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.44ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019, one sample: 0.2 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.44 ppm, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.2 ppm.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 0.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.5 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.0 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and nitrate results here are North Carolina’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Green Mountain Park’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for North Carolina cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 14, 2013 to Oct. 9, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Green Mountain Park’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab North Carolina certifies.

The 3 labs North Carolina certifies closest to the area Green Mountain Park serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Water Tech Laboratories, Inc.

    Granite Falls, NC · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (828) 396-4444

  • Aqua Tech Service and Consulting

    Boone, NC · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 773-0971

  • Water Quality Lab & Operations

    Banner Elk, NC · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (828) 898-6277

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0114459. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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