Catawba, 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.
Catawba, Town Of at a glance
Catawba, Town Of serves about 1,617 people through 660 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 Catawba County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0118040; phone on file: 828-323-7427. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2016 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Catawba, Town Of is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Catawba, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 61st percentile in North Carolina and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
78 other systems share Catawba County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Catawba, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hickory City Of | 71,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newton, City Of | 18,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conover, City Of | 15,347 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maiden, Town Of | 5,563 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longview, Town Of | 5,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southeast Catawba County | 5,080 | 0 (not detected) |
| Claremont, City Of | 2,645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cross Country Campground Inc | 627 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pebble Bay | 587 | 10 ppb |
| Homestead S/D Water System | 389 | 5 ppb |
Next steps for Hickory, NC
Look up your address in Catawba, 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 Catawba, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.