Belhaven Water System, 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.
About Belhaven Water System
Belhaven Water System serves about 1,960 people through 960 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Beaufort County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0407015; phone on file: 252-943-3055. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Belhaven Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Belhaven Water System is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Belhaven Water System compares
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. Belhaven Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 63rd percentile in North Carolina and the 30th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Beaufort County
6 other systems share Beaufort County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Belhaven Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beaufort Co Northside Regional Water | 22,405 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington, City Of | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaufort Co Southside | 9,369 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chocowinity Water System | 2,565 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aurora Water System | 805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bath Water System | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Belhaven Water System'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 Belhaven Water System 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.