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The Ridges at Mountain Harbor

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
160 people
Connections
64
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Hayesville, NC
County
Clay
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

28904

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), 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.

Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Feb. 7, 2013 to Feb. 12, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits1

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.06ppm

Highest yearly average, 2013 to 2019

2019 average: 0.055 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.06 ppm, in 2013, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.12 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.055 ppm.

What handles it

7 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
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), 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, chromium (total) and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. The Ridges at Mountain Harbor’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. 7, 2013 to Feb. 12, 2019.

Testing your own tap

The Ridges at Mountain Harbor’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 The Ridges at Mountain Harbor serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Clay County Health Department

    Hayesville, NC · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 389-8052

  • EAS Testing Laboratory

    Franklin, NC · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 524-2353

  • Macon County Health Dept.

    Franklin, NC · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 349-2447

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

Sources

PWSID NC0122108. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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