Brandywine Bay, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
Who runs the water here
Brandywine Bay serves about 2,245 people through 884 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carteret County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0416163; phone on file: 800-525-7990. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Brandywine Bay's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brandywine Bay is 4 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4 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. Brandywine Bay's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 63rd percentile in North Carolina and the 31st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Carteret County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brandywine Bay. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Carteret Water Corp | 19,512 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morehead City, Town Of | 18,846 | 0 (not detected) |
| Atlantic Beach, Town Of | 6,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newport Water System | 5,453 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bogue Banks Water Corporation | 4,995 | 4 ppb |
| Pine Knoll Shores | 4,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaufort, Town Of | 4,452 | 4.5 ppb |
| North River/Mill Creek Water Service Dis | 4,417 | 4 ppb |
| Harkers Island Sanitary Dist | 2,586 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goose Creek Resort | 1,600 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Charlotte, NC
Look up your address in Brandywine Bay'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 Brandywine Bay 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.