Bethel, Town Of, 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.
Bethel, Town Of at a glance
Bethel, Town Of serves about 1,640 people through 750 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 surface water, in Pitt County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0474030; phone on file: 252-551-1561. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bethel, Town Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bethel, Town Of is 0.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
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. Bethel, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 61st 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.
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Pitt County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bethel, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville Utilities Comm | 103,140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Pines Water Corp | 23,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bell Arthur Water Corp | 11,765 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterville, Town Of | 10,462 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmville, Town Of | 8,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ayden Town Of | 6,366 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stokes Regional Water Corp | 3,530 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grifton, Town Of | 2,982 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fountain, Town Of | 427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grimesland, Town Of | 332 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Bethel, Town Of'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 Bethel, Town Of 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.