Nasty Branch
Asheville County
· Aug 19, 2026 at 10:13
Fails Primary & Secondary Recreation - Swimming & Boating
E. coli
1440
MPN/100 mL
Turbidity
6.87
NTU
Sample date
Aug 19, 2026
10:13
Last sync
Aug 25, 2026
2:38 pm
Swimming / Primary contact
Fails 126 MPN/100 mL limit
Boating / Secondary contact
Fails 886 MPN/100 mL limit
Site details
County
Asheville
Sheet name
Nasty Branch
Coordinates
35.5781, -82.5616
Quality standards
Primary Recreation - Swimming
Fails 126 MPN/100 mL
Secondary Recreation - Paddling, Wading, Fishing
Fails 886 MPN/100 mL
Current reading
1440 MPN/100 mL
About this location
Nasty Branch (also known as Town Branch) is a small urban stream in central Asheville that has been added to the NC DEQ list of impaired waterways for fecal coliform bacteria. It drains a heavily developed portion of the Central Asheville Watershed. Monitoring at this site is part of a broader effort to identify and address sources of bacterial pollution in urban tributaries feeding the French Broad River.
All data displayed on this page has been collected by Mountain True & volunteers