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Marion Moose Lodge

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
320 people
Connections
160
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Marion, NC
County
McDowell
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28752

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Copper, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2024.

Nitrate and arsenic: 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, chromium (total) and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from April 22, 2014 to Aug. 6, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.5ppm

90th percentile, 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.5 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.2ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 3.2 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.2 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 3.2 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 6.2 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.073ppm

Highest yearly average, 2014 to 2017

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.073 ppm, in 2017, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.14 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

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?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Lead and Copper Rule RevisionsThe required inventory of lead service lines was not completed or submitted on time.EPA: LSL InventoryOct. 17, 2024—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 9 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate and arsenic 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, chromium (total) and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Marion Moose Lodge’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 April 22, 2014 to Aug. 6, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Marion Moose Lodge’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 Marion Moose Lodge serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Toe River Health District - Avery County

    Newland, NC · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 733-6031

  • Toe River Health District - Mitchell County

    Bakersville, NC · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 688-2371

  • WNC Independent Labs

    Weaverville, NC · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 552-5174

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0156132. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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