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Sherwood Forest Water System

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
680 people
Connections
272
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Brevard, NC
County
Transylvania
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28712

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

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 April 18, 2012 to April 16, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.8 ppb, in 2021: 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 2.7 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.2 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. 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 1.7 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.07ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.07 ppm, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.14 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

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

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.

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. Sherwood Forest Water System’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 18, 2012 to April 16, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Sherwood Forest Water System’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 Sherwood Forest Water System 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 · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 884-3139

  • 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

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0188116. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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