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Is Cashiers, NC tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Cashiers, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

5 of the 15 utilities serving Cashiers have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Mountain Top Golf & Lake Club, Timber Ridge, Cedar Hill and 2 more.

Mountain Top Golf & Lake Club, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 25.3 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Cashiers’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Cashiers

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Cashiers than those above.

  • Trillium Links & Villageserves 610 people · lists Cashiers among the places it serves · 1 health-based violation since 2016
  • Highlands Cove S/Dserves 604 people · lists Cashiers among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Trillium Links Westserves 424 people · lists Cashiers among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Cedar Creek Woodsserves 122 people · lists Cashiers among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Cedar Ridge Estatesserves 107 people · lists Cashiers among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016

Water testing near Cashiers

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab North Carolina certifies.

The 3 labs North Carolina certifies closest to Cashiers, 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 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (828) 884-3139

  • 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

ZIP codes in Cashiers

Which ZIP codes are in Cashiers: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health, certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Cashiers

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