Cedar Terrace Apartments, 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.
Who runs the water here
Cedar Terrace Apartments serves about 123 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 Chatham County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0319132; phone on file: 919-653-6999. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Cedar Terrace Apartments's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Terrace Apartments is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 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. Cedar Terrace Apartments's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in North Carolina and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Chatham County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Terrace Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chatham Co-North | 23,088 | 0 (not detected) |
| Siler City, Town Of | 8,520 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pittsboro, Town Of | 6,708 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chatham Co-Sw Chatham | 2,470 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chapel Ridge S/D | 2,098 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chatham Co-Asbury | 1,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goldston-Gulf Sanitary Dist | 1,187 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beechwood Cove/Polks Landing | 406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chatham S/D | 365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colvard Farms S/D | 365 | 1.9 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Cedar Terrace Apartments'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 Cedar Terrace Apartments whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1720 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.