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Ridge Haven Conference Center

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
100 people
Connections
70
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Rosman, NC
County
Transylvania
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28772

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2008 to 2025. Lead at 0.89 mg/L (2004) is left out of this report: more than 20 times the action level, it looks like µg/L entered as mg/L.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.7 ppm, for the period ending June 30, 2008. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Uranium, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): 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 Feb. 21, 2012 to Nov. 7, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

5.5ppb

90th percentile, 2023 to 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 5.5 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

5.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.8 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 8.6 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.38ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.38 ppm, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found.

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)
  • Nitrate
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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.

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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. 3 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) 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. Ridge Haven Conference Center’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 Feb. 21, 2012 to Nov. 7, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Ridge Haven Conference Center’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 Ridge Haven Conference Center serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Transylvania County Env. Health

    Brevard, NC · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 884-3139

  • Byers Environmental, Inc.

    Pisgah Forest, NC · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 577-9916

  • Royal Water Works Inc.

    Pisgah Forest, NC · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 506-5572

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0188132. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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