Transylvania County, North Carolina: drinking water report. Transylvania County – Brevard – serves about 34,000 residents in the southern Blue Ridge.
Transylvania County – Brevard – serves about 34,000 residents in the southern Blue Ridge. Known as the Land of Waterfalls, the county's abundant rainfall and forested watersheds produce some of the cleanest water in the eastern United States. The county draws from pristine mountain streams.
Transylvania County's water sources are about as clean as municipal source water gets in the US. UCMR5 data shows no significant PFAS detections. According to NC DEQ's 2024 data, systems met all standards. The DuPont State Recreational Forest and Pisgah National Forest protect much of the county's watershed from development.
Transylvania County's water quality is outstanding. Filtration is truly optional here.
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Drinking water is one exposure route. These federal datasets also cover Transylvania County, NC.
The EPA places Transylvania County, NC in Zone 1 - the EPA's highest-risk category, where the predicted average indoor radon level is above 4 pCi/L. Zone maps predict an area's radon potential from geology and existing indoor readings; they say nothing about a specific house. Testing is the only way to know your own level.
44% of homes in Transylvania County, NC were built before 1980, and 10% before 1950. Residential lead paint was banned in 1978, so housing age is the strongest available proxy for lead-paint exposure. This describes the county's housing stock, not any one home.
Modelled annual fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) in Transylvania County, NC averages 6.4 µg/m³, within the EPA's annual standard of 9 µg/m³. These are CDC modelled county estimates rather than readings from a specific monitor.
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