Highlands Falls Country Club, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Highlands Falls Country Club at a glance
Highlands Falls Country Club serves about 650 people through 384 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Macon County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0157123; phone on file: 828-526-2203. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 15 ppb from 25 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Highlands Falls Country Club is 25 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 ppb |
| 2025 | 25 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 8 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 1,925 North Carolina systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 75 have gone over at some point. Highlands Falls Country Club's 10 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in North Carolina and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Macon County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Highlands Falls Country Club. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin, Town Of | 9,992 | 3 ppb |
| Highlands, Town Of | 6,614 | 4 ppb |
| Cullasaja Club | 800 | 3 ppb |
| Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. | 676 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildcat Cliffs Country Club | 445 | 0 (not detected) |
| Watauga Vista | 361 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Estates | 323 | 5.5 ppb |
| Lbj Job Corps | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cold Springs Poa | 165 | 4.5 ppb |
| King Mountain Club Water | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Highlands, NC may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Highlands Falls Country Club whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.