Toxaway Falls Condos, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Toxaway Falls Condos serves about 74 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Transylvania County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0188130; phone on file: 828-884-9537. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Toxaway Falls Condos's lead record
That is down 5 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Toxaway Falls Condos is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Toxaway Falls Condos's 2 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in North Carolina and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Transylvania County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Toxaway Falls Condos. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brevard, City Of | 11,336 | 0 (not detected) |
| Connestee Falls | 3,532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sapphire Lakes Development | 724 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherwood Forest Water System | 680 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rosman, Town Of | 650 | 4 ppb |
| The Wilds Camp | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knob Creek Water System | 445 | 2.1 ppb |
| Turkey Pen Mhp | 229 | 12 ppb |
| Ridge Haven Conference Center | 100 | 5.5 ppb |
| Waterford Place | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pisgah Forest, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pisgah Forest, 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 Toxaway Falls Condos 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.