Cedar Lake Mhp, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Cedar Lake Mhp serves about 124 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Nash County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0464317; phone on file: 252-235-4900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cedar Lake Mhp's lead record
That is down 8.5 ppb from 12.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Lake Mhp is 12.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Cedar Lake Mhp's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in North Carolina and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Nash County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Lake Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, City Of | 55,891 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Nash Water & Sewer | 7,675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashville, Town Of | 5,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sharpsburg, Town Of | 1,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Nash Water District | 1,694 | 0 (not detected) |
| Middlesex Water System | 1,389 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Hope, Town Of | 1,312 | 5.8 ppb |
| Nash County Water System Area 2 | 701 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bailey, Town Of | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ransdell Forest S/D Mhp | 124 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for Raleigh, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Raleigh, 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 Cedar Lake Mhp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.