Public water system · NC0138417

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Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe

At a glance

Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe (PWSID NC0138417) is an active transient non-community water system in Graham County, North Carolina. It reports serving 25 people through 2 service connections. Its primary water source is groundwater, and EPA lists it as privately owned. Of the 12 most recent violations in EPA's records, none is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025.

Dataset updated October 2026 . Source: EPA SDWIS/ECHO public records.

Population served

Service connections

Primary source

Groundwater

System type

TNCWS

Transient non-community water system

System record

PWSIDNC0138417

System typeTransient non-community water system

Activity statusActive

Population served25

Service connections2

Primary water sourceGroundwater

Owner typePrivate

Primacy agencyNC state drinking water program

City servedRobbinsville

StateNorth Carolina

ZIP—

CountyGraham County

How does Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe compare with other water systems in Graham County?

By EPA's size categories, Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe is a very small system (500 people or fewer). Graham County has 36 active public water systems. Its population served is well below the county average of 169 people per system, and accounts for 0.4% of the 6,073 people reported by systems filed under the county. Across North Carolina, the 5,087 active systems average 1,971 people each. Nationally, the average active transient non-community water system reports serving 144 people, so Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe is well below that figure.

What does “transient non-community water system” mean?

A transient non-community water system serves places where people do not stay long, such as gas stations and campgrounds, and regularly serves at least 25 people a day for at least 60 days a year. North Carolina has 2,745 active transient non-community water systems, 54% of the state's 5,087 active systems. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers. 4,566 North Carolina systems (90%) list groundwater as their primary source.

Who owns and regulates Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe?

EPA lists Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe as privately owned. The NC state drinking water program is its primacy agency, the regulator with primary enforcement responsibility for the system under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 28 of the 36 active systems in Graham County (78%) are also privately owned.

Does Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe have drinking water violations?

Of the 12 most recent violations in EPA's records, none is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. The violations listed here began between January 2016 and October 2025. By type: 7 monitoring, 2 public notice, recordkeeping or other, 2 reporting and 1 monitoring and reporting. The contaminant or rule involved most often is Revised Total Coliform Rule (9 of them). EPA lists 11 as resolved and 1 as archived. Resolved means at least one resolving action is on record: the system returned to compliance, the rule no longer applies, or no further action was needed. Archived means the violation was not marked resolved but is more than five years past the end of the noncompliance period, so it no longer counts toward current compliance status.

Began	Violation	Contaminant or rule	Health-based	Status
2025-10-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Archived
2019-05-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2019-04-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2019-03-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2019-02-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2018-10-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2018-09-26	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherPublic Notification Violation for NPDWR Violation · code 75	Public Noticecode 7500	No	Resolved
2018-07-11	ReportingReport Sample Result/Fail Monitor (RTCR) · code 4B	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2018-07-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2018-02-08	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherPublic Notification Violation for NPDWR Violation · code 75	Public Noticecode 7500	No	Resolved
2017-09-11	ReportingReport Sample Result/Fail Monitor (RTCR) · code 4B	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2016-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitratecode 1040	No	Resolved

The 12 most recent violations in EPA's records, newest first.Labels and codes come from EPA's SDWIS reference tables. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found. "Health-based" marks violations of a legal limit or required treatment.

Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe: frequently asked questions

Who runs Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe?

Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe (PWSID NC0138417) is a transient non-community water system privately owned. It is regulated by the NC state drinking water program.

How many people does Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe serve?

Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe reports serving 25 people through 2 service connections in Graham County, North Carolina.

Where does Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe get its water?

EPA SDWIS lists this system's primary water source as groundwater. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers.

Does Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe have any drinking water violations?

Of the 12 most recent violations in EPA's records, none is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found.

Is Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe's water safe to drink?

AquaCensus shows EPA compliance records, not current water test results, so it cannot say whether the water is safe at a given moment. Of the 12 most recent violations in EPA's records, none is health-based, and the most recent began in October 2025. For current results, consult EPA ECHO, or the NC state drinking water program.

Where can I find Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe's water quality report?

The annual Consumer Confidence Report requirement applies to community water systems. Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe is a transient non-community water system, so it is not required to publish one; like every public water system, it must notify the people it serves about violations under EPA's public notification rules.

Other water systems in Graham County

Water system	County	Population served	Type	Source
Robbinsville, Town of	Graham	2,916	Community	Surface water
Town of Fontana Dam	Graham	950	Community	Surface water
Lake Santeetlah, Town of	Graham	498	Community	Groundwater
Cheoah Point Rec Area	Graham	200	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Tobacco Branch Village	Graham	163	Community	Groundwater
Cedar Cliff Baptist Church	Graham	125	Transient non-community	Groundwater

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About this data

Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) and SDWA violation records, via EPA ECHO, as published October 1, 2026 — AquaCensus refreshes it quarterly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: AquaCensus, “Red Barn Hollow General Store & Cafe, PWSID NC0138417, North Carolina”, https://aquacensus.com/water-systems/north-carolina/red-barn-hollow-general-store-cafe-nc0138417 (data as of October 1, 2026).