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Pinchot S/D

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
74 people
Connections
29
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Cashiers, NC
County
Jackson
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28716

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Uranium, above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic 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 Sept. 12, 2012 to Dec. 5, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the limit’s level, no violation

31.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 10.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 31.7 ppb, in 2021, above EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 10.2 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for uranium at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 51.5 ppb, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.38ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019, one sample: 0.17 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.38 ppm, in 2016, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.17 ppm.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

5.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.3 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.53 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.1 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • 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 is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic 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. Pinchot S/D’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 Sept. 12, 2012 to Dec. 5, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Pinchot S/D’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 Pinchot S/D serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Byers Environmental, Inc.

    Pisgah Forest, NC · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 577-9916

  • Royal Water Works Inc.

    Pisgah Forest, NC · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 506-5572

  • Williams Environmental Testing

    Pisgah Forest, NC · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (828) 243-1707

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC1050030. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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