Brafford Farms Water System, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Brafford Farms Water System serves about 152 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0113148; phone on file: 919-653-6999. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brafford Farms Water System is 16.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 13 ppb over 10 |
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. Brafford Farms Water System's 4.3 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in North Carolina and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Cabarrus County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brafford Farms Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Concord, City Of | 120,771 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrisburg, Town Of | 20,549 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shiloh Church Road S/D | 3,102 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Pleasant, Town Of | 1,786 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitehurst Mhp | 688 | 0 (not detected) |
| Zemosa Acres Water System | 650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stallings Glen S/D | 544 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor Towne Water System | 536 | - |
| Silver Maples Estates Mhp | 463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fieldstone/Cold Springs Dev | 424 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cary, NC may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Brafford Farms Water System whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.