Copeland Acres S/D, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
Copeland Acres S/D at a glance
Copeland Acres S/D serves about 200 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0326143; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Copeland Acres S/D is 16.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 16.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Copeland Acres S/D compares
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. Copeland Acres S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in North Carolina and the 15th 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 Cumberland County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Copeland Acres S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville Public Works Comm | 226,441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old North Utilities Services/Ft Bragg | 65,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Comm Wtr System | 15,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cliffdale West | 15,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Lake, Town Of | 11,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastover Sanitary District | 8,150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood South/Fayetteville Pwc | 2,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linden, Town Of | 2,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stedman, Town Of | 1,705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wade, Town Of | 780 | 12 ppb |
Your move
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 Copeland Acres S/D 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.