Black Mountain, 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.
Black Mountain, Town Of at a glance
Black Mountain, Town Of serves about 11,976 people through 4,715 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Buncombe County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0111020; phone on file: 828-419-9300. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Black Mountain, Town Of's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Black Mountain, Town Of is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Black Mountain, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 73rd percentile in North Carolina and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Buncombe County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Black Mountain, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Asheville City Of | 157,431 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodfin Sanitary Water And Sewer | 10,122 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weaverville, Town Of | 8,359 | 0 (not detected) |
| Biltmore Forest, Town Of | 1,356 | 0 (not detected) |
| Royal Gorge Water Utility | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bent Creek Water System | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montreat Water System | 798 | 4 ppb |
| Christmount Christian Assembly | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Pisgah Academy | 210 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Black Mountain, 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 Black Mountain, 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.