Community Water System · PWSID NC0187124

Nantahala Village

Serves 135 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCovington, Georgia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1993: 49 violations. 6 treatment lapses · 17 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
6Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test1 open
26Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in Georgia. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1993 · Missed or late test: 1199520002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Treatment lapse: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% treatment lapse · 635% missed or late test · 1753% notice or report · 26

Across Georgia, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

354 ppb
18 ppb
4.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 9 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

9.9 mg/L
6.8 mg/L
4.9 mg/L
4.8 mg/L
4.2 mg/L
3.7 mg/L
2.7 mg/L
2.7 mg/L
2.1 mg/L

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2017-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2019-02-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2018-06-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2018-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2017-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2017-11-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-08-31Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2017-02-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  22. 2017-01-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2016-12-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  25. 2016-11-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
Show the other 21 entries
  1. 2016-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-02Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-02Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  7. 2013-12-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2013-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-09-07Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2012-08-30Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  11. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  12. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2012-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2012-04-03Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2012-04-03Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  17. 2005-04-02Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2004-02-08Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2001-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served135
Service connections54
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCovington
EPA ZIP on file30014

Areas served

  • Bryson City, Swain County

Reading this record

Nantahala Village is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 135 people in Covington, Georgia. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.