Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates at a glance
Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates serves about 318 people through 125 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Swain County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0187128; phone on file: 828-497-2772. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 15 ppb from 15 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates is 15 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
Against other North Carolina systems
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. Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 45th percentile in North Carolina and the 19th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Swain County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bryson City, Town Of | 4,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whittier Sanitary District | 252 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nantahala Outdoor--Flint Ridge | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pelohi Cove | 46 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Smoky Mtn Country Club Estates 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.